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10 000 Mark Badische Bank
| Issuer | Badische Bank |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| In circulation to | September 1923 |
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| Obverse lettering | ZEHNTAUSEND 10000 MARK 10000 MARK ZAHLT DIE BADISCHE BANK DEM EINLIEFERER DIESER BANKNOTE WER 10000 MARK BANKNOTEN NACHMACHT ODER VERFÄLSCHT ODER NACHGEMACHTE ODER VERFÄLSCHTE SICH VERSCHAFFT U. IN VERKEHR BRINGT, WIRD MIT ZUCHTHAUS NICHT UNTER ZWEI JAHREN BESTRAFT BADISCHE BANK MANNHEIM DER VORSTAND |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by two finely engraved portrait busts in profile facing each other at the centre: a male figure wearing a broad-brimmed hat on the left, and a bare-headed female figure with flowing hair on the right, separated by an intricately knotted Celtic-style interlace column. The portraits are framed by an ornate border of scroll and rope motifs with the denomination "10000" repeated in teal numerals at the sides and along the upper and lower margins. The issuer's name "BADISCHE BANK" and denomination "10000 MARK" appear on ribbon banderoles at the top and bottom of the design. |
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The Badische Bank was one of the four remaining German private note-issuing banks still operating when hyperinflation peaked in 1923. Unlike the Reichsbank, these regional institutions had to seek emergency authorization for each new denomination as the numbers climbed — 10,000 Mark had been a staggering sum just two years earlier and was effectively pocket change by the time this note entered circulation in mid-1923.
Printed in Mannheim, where the Badische Bank was headquartered, rather than through the major Berlin or Leipzig print houses used for Reichsbank paper. The bank lost its note-issuing privilege entirely with the Rentenmark stabilization in late 1923.