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10 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Chemnitz |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 140 × 85 mm |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned note printed in blue with a decorative guilloche border incorporating rosettes at each corner. The denomination 'Zehn Millionen Mark' is set in large Gothic script at centre, flanked by the numeral 10,000,000 Mark at lower left and right. A letterpress vignette at the lower centre portrays a multi-storey civic building with surrounding trees, above which two facsimile signatures appear with their respective titles. The printer's imprint 'Rats-Druckerei Glauchau' appears at the lower left margin. |
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| Signature(s) | Jungnickel (Amtshauptmann) and Schneider (Vors. d. Bezirkstags) |
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The Amtshauptmannschaft Chemnitz was one of dozens of Saxon district administrations that turned to emergency currency — Notgeld — during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsmark lost value faster than the Reichsdruckerei could supply denominations large enough to be useful. By the time 10-million-mark notes were being struck at local print shops like Dulce's operation in Glauchau, the denomination itself had a shelf life measured in days.
Jungnickel signed as Amtshauptmann — essentially the appointed administrative head of the district — while Schneider's countersignature as chairman of the Bezirkstag added the elected body's authority. Two signatures on emergency paper meant to last a week.