2 000 000 Mark

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.