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10 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Wiesdorf (City of Wiesdorf) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 130 x 85 mm |
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| Obverse description | Rose-brown letterpress note with a dense guilloche border framing the entire face. The denomination "Zehn Millionen Mark" is set in large Fraktur blackletter type at centre, flanked on both sides by the numeral 10 000 000, with a pale blue-green underprint vignette of the city arms at centre. Date, serial number, and the Bürgermeister's signature appear along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Rose-brown letterpress reverse with a guilloche border matching the obverse. A large circular vignette at centre contains a detailed illustration of the Wiesdorf war memorial by sculptor Klimbsch, showing a stone pedestal with a crouching mourning figure in relief, set against a townscape background. Four decorative scroll cartouches appear at the corners, with series and row designations in Fraktur at upper left and right. |
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Wiesdorf was a small industrial town on the Rhine, best known as the headquarters of Bayer AG, and its municipal emergency money in 1923 sits squarely within the most chaotic phase of German hyperinflation — the period between roughly August and November when denominations climbed from millions to trillions within weeks. A 10,000,000 Mark note would have bought a loaf of bread in August 1923, and almost nothing by October.
M. Dumont Schauberg, the Cologne press behind this note, was one of the most active commercial printers supplying Notgeld to municipalities across the Rhineland during the crisis. Wiesdorf itself was absorbed into the newly created city of Leverkusen in 1930, which is why issues under this municipal name ceased entirely.