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10 000 000 Mark Braunkohlenwerke Borna
| Issuer | Braunkohlenwerke Borna Aktiengesellschaft |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 10 000 000 Mark (10 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted note with a central intaglio vignette of a mine worker loading coal into an ore cart, set against a background of industrial pit-head structures and radiating sunburst lines printed in a lighter green underprint. A bold black letterpress band across the centre bears the denomination '10 Millionen Mark' in Gothic script, with a cartouche below inscribed 'Gutschein'. The lower panel carries the payment text in German, the issuer's name 'Braunkohlenwerke Borna Aktiengesellschaft' to the right, a red serial number prefixed 'No', and a manuscript signature, with the printer's imprint 'J.J. Weber, Leipzig' at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Millionen Mark Gutschein zahlen wir in Reichspapiermark dem Überbringer dieses Gutscheines, der vier Wochen nach Aufruf seine Gültigkeit verliert. BRAUNKOHLENWERKE BORNA AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT J.J.WEBER, LEIPZIG |
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Braunkohlenwerke Borna AG was a lignite mining operation in the Borna coalfield south of Leipzig — one of the largest brown coal deposits in central Germany. Like hundreds of German industrial firms in mid-1923, it issued its own emergency currency (Notgeld) to pay workers when the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough physical banknotes to meet weekly wage demands during the hyperinflationary collapse. Printing in-house or through a local press was faster than waiting for official currency that would be worth a fraction of its face value within days of delivery.
J. J. Weber was a well-established Leipzig publishing and printing house, which handled a number of regional Notgeld issues during this period. The 10,000,000 Mark denomination places this note firmly in the August–September 1923 window, before the zeros climbed into the billions.