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10 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeindekasse Brunndöbra |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie F Nr. (SN) Gut für Mk. 10.000.000 Die Girokasse Brunndöbra wolle vergüten zu Lasten unseres Kontos Nr. 364 Zehn Millionen Mk. Brunndöbra, 1. August 1923 Die Gemeindekasse. Gültig bis zum Aufrufe im amtlichen Bekanntmachungsblatte Nicht girieren! |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing the plain yellow-ochre paper stock; the obverse letterpress text is visible in mirror image as a strong show-through, with the circular municipal stamp and manuscript signatures also legible in reverse. No deliberate design, vignette, or lettering was applied to this side. |
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Brunndöbra is a small village in the Erzgebirge district of Saxony — precisely the kind of municipality that had no business issuing its own emergency currency, yet did so in August 1923 when Reichsbank notes were losing value faster than they could be printed. The Gemeindekasse, essentially the village cashier's office, authorized this 10-million Mark note during the period of hyperinflation when denominations climbed from thousands to billions within weeks.
Saxony produced an extraordinary volume of Notgeld at this level, and many pieces were printed on whatever stock was locally available, with quality varying dramatically between runs. This denomination places it squarely in the middle inflation phase — by November 1923, ten million marks was functionally worthless.