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10 000 000 Mark Buchau, Trikotfabriken Hermann Moos
| Issuer | Trikotfabriken Hermann Moos Aktiengesellschaft, Buchau a. F. |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-toned notgeld printed in black letterpress on plain paper, enclosed within a decorative foliate border. At upper left, a large ornamental woodcut initial 'Z' within a framed vignette embellished with figural and scrollwork motifs occupies a square cartouche; to the right, the denomination 'Zehn Millionen Mark' is set in bold display type with the subsidiary line 'Gutschein für 10 000 000 Mark' above. A circular orange company stamp is applied at centre-right, flanked by two manuscript signatures, with the issuing text, serial number, place, and date of 17 September 1923 arranged in the lower left field. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and displays only the strong letterpress offset impression showing through from the obverse, rendering all text and design elements in mirror image on the plain salmon-coloured paper stock; no independent design or lettering was applied to this side. |
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Buchau am Federsee was a small Swabian town with an outsized role in German notgeld production. Trikotfabriken Hermann Moos — a knitwear manufacturer — issued this note during the hyperinflation peak of 1923, when private firms, municipalities, and cooperatives across Germany were printing emergency money simply to meet weekly payrolls. The Reichsbank could not keep pace with wage demands denominated in figures that had been unimaginable eighteen months earlier.
Vereinigte Buchdruckereien Buchau-Nebusenried-Aulendorf was a regional print consortium serving the area — a purely local production chain, from issuer to press.