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10 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Frankfurt am Main (City of Frankfurt am Main) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 150 × 100 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green Notgeld emergency note printed on cream paper, with an intricate guilloche border of repeating heart and rosette motifs enclosing the entire design. A central oval vignette contains a view of the Römer (Frankfurt's historic town hall), framed by dense guilloche scrollwork, above which the denomination "Zehn Millionen Mark" is set in bold Gothic blackletter type. Vertical serial numerals appear on both left and right margins, with the issuing authority, place, date, serial number, and two manuscript signatures of Der Magistrat arranged in the lower half. |
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| Reverse lettering | STADT FRANKFURT AM MAIN. Zehn Millionen Mark 10.000.000 August Osterrieth, Frankfurt a. M. |
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Frankfurt's municipal authority was among hundreds of German cities forced into emergency currency production during the hyperinflation of 1923, as the Reichsbank's output simply could not keep pace with the denominations required for daily transactions. By the time notes of this magnitude were being struck, the value of the mark was collapsing so fast that multi-million mark issues were obsolete within days of printing.
August Osterrieth was a Frankfurt commercial printer, not a security printing house — a telling detail about how far ordinary printing infrastructure had been pressed into monetary service that year.