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| Emittent | Stadt Viersen (City of Viersen) |
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| Jahr | 1923 |
| Typ | Local banknote |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Notgeld issue printed in red and black on cream paper, with a decorative border of repeating foliate motifs enclosing the entire face. To the left, the circular municipal seal of Viersen bears a heraldic lion above a rose, with the legend 'WAPPEN DER STADT VIERSEN' around the circumference. The denomination '10 MILLIONEN' appears in a header band at top, with 'SERIE A' at upper right, the numeral value '10000000 Mark' in bold black letterpress at centre, and the written amount 'Zehn Millionen Mark' in large red letterpress within a framed panel below. Issue date 'Viersen, den 3. September 1923' and a validity clause appear at lower left, with the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature at lower right. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Reverse is unprinted, showing plain cream paper with show-through of the obverse design visible in reverse. A faint circular cancellation stamp is discernible at upper right. |
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Viersen's 10-million Mark note was issued during the acute hyperinflationary collapse of summer–autumn 1923, when German municipal governments — Städte and Gemeinden — were legally empowered to issue their own emergency currency, Notgeld, to meet payroll and local commerce demands as Reichsbank supply chains failed to keep pace with daily denomination requirements. By August 1923, a 10-million Mark face value was roughly equivalent to a loaf of bread; within weeks, that same note would be functionally worthless.
Locally printed Notgeld of this period is prone to ink strike-through and paper brittleness — high-speed printing on wartime-surplus stock was common.