2 000 000 Mark

Fürth's municipal treasury issued this 2,000,000 Mark note during the hyperinflation peak of summer 1923, when German cities were legally empowered — and practically forced — to print their own emergency currency (Notgeld) simply to meet weekly payroll. The Stadtkasse Fürth was not a bank; it was the city's cashier's office, and notes like this were stopgaps printed locally while the Reichsbank struggled to keep denominations meaningful against a mark losing value by the hour.

Three municipal signatures — Oberbürgermeister Arnold flanked by the second and third Bürgermeisters — reflect the administrative formality Bavarian municipalities maintained even as the currency collapsed around them.