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2 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Universitätsstadt Jena (City of Jena, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse retains the original 1000 Mark Notschein design printed in dark red on a pale pink guilloche underprint, with an ornamental floral and foliate border enclosing the central field. The municipal coat of arms of Jena — a shield bearing a standing figure with towers — is set at centre, flanked by validity and redemption conditions in two text blocks. The denomination 'Tausend Mark' is rendered in large Gothic script at the foot, with the numeral '1000' repeated in the four corners of the inner frame. |
| Reverse lettering | Universitätsstadt Jena Dieser Notschein hat nur Geltung im Stadtkreise Jena Nachahmungen dieses Scheines werden strafrechtlich verfolgt. Einlösung erfolgt nach dem 1. Novbr. 22 nach vorheriger öffentlicher Bekanntmachung in den Jenaer Zeitungen. Einlösestellen sind die städtischen Kassen und Banken in Jena. Tausend Mark 1000 |
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Jena's 2,000,000 Mark note dates from the late summer or autumn of 1922, when Germany's municipal authorities were being forced to issue their own emergency currency — Notgeld — simply to keep wages paid and commerce moving. The Reichsbank could not print fast enough. Jena, a university town whose economy was already anchored by Carl Zeiss and Schott glass, was among hundreds of German municipalities that turned to commercial printers to fill the gap.
J. C. König & Ebhardt of Hannover was one of the more established commercial printers drawn into Notgeld production during this period — a stationery and printing house, not a security printer by trade, which is worth noting when assessing paper and ink consistency across surviving examples.