Catalog
10 000 Mark
| Issuer | Danzig, City of |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Reference(s) | P#18 |
| Obverse description | At left, a circular vignette contains a portrait of a Danziger merchant after Hans Holbein. To the right, the denomination is rendered in bold letterpress text against a background vignette of a Hanseatic galleon under sail, heading left. |
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| Reverse description | A central circular medallion bears the coat of arms of the Free City of Danzig, flanked by supporters in the form of lions. Two Gothic ogival frames on either side enclose architectural vignettes of prominent Danzig buildings. |
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Danzig's 10,000 Mark note of 1923 was issued during the hyperinflationary collapse that engulfed the wider German currency zone — the Free City, though politically separated from Weimar Germany under League of Nations protection since 1920, remained economically tied to the German mark and could not insulate itself from the destruction. Local authorities were forced to issue emergency denominations at scales that would have been unthinkable just two years earlier.
The print date of 30 April 1923 places this note squarely in the acceleration phase, before the October peak when the Reichsmark began its final vertical collapse.