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10 000 000 Mark Oberamt Leutkirch
| Issuer | Amtskörperschaft Leutkirch |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on a pale pink ground, the upper portion carries a letterpress landscape vignette of a traditional half-timbered farmhouse set against a mountain panorama with conifers, framed by stylised foliate borders. Below the vignette, the denomination 'Zehn Millionen Mark' is set in bold Gothic blackletter type over a fine cross-pattern guilloche underprint, with the issuing text crediting the Oberamtssparkasse Leutkirch, the date '20. August 1923', and three manuscript signatures beneath the titles Oberamtmann, Oberamtspfleger, and Sparkassendirektor. The serial number, prefixed 'A', appears in a cartouche at the foot, with the denomination panel '10 M.' repeated vertically on the left margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and shows a strong blind offset of the obverse design in pale blue-grey, with the text and vignette visible in mirror image through the thin paper stock; the cross-pattern guilloche underprint is particularly apparent across the central field. |
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Leutkirch im Allgäu was a minor Württemberg district authority — hardly a natural candidate for currency issuance. But by mid-1923, Reichsbanknote production had collapsed so completely under hyperinflation that local Oberämter across Germany were printing their own emergency denominations just to meet weekly payroll. The ten-million mark figure, astronomical by any peacetime measure, was already losing purchasing power by the time the ink dried.
The watermarked paper distinguishes this from the shoddier Notgeld of the same period, suggesting the printer had access to decent stock — unusual for a rural district office scrambling to keep up with denomination escalation.