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2 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | City of Freital |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 2 000 000 Mark (2 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in purple on cream paper, the obverse is dominated by the large bold denomination legend "ZWEI MILLIONEN MARK" across the centre, above a redemption clause naming the Stadt Freital and the issue date "15. August 1923". At the top, a municipal arms vignette flanked by the motto ribbon "FLEISS UND FORTSCHRITT" sits between the numeral "2" and the word "MILLIONEN" repeated at each upper corner, with the approval line "Zugel. vom Reichs- Finanzministerium" immediately below. The lower portion carries the issuing authority "DER RAT DER STADT FREITAL", a manuscript signature over the printed title "Bürgermeister", and an anti-counterfeiting penal notice, with series letter "Reihe G" and a stamped serial number at upper right. |
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| Obverse lettering | FLEISS UND FORTSCHRITT 2 MILLIONEN Zugel. vom Reichs- Finanzministerium Reihe G GUTSCHEIN ÜBER ZWEI MILLIONEN MARK Gegen Rückgabe dieses Scheines zahlt die Stadt Freital den Betrag von 2 000 000 Mark Freital, den 15. August 1923 DER RAT DER STADT FREITAL Bürgermeister Wer Gutscheine nachmacht oder verfälscht, oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter 2 Jahren bestraft Johannes Pässler, Dresden-N. |
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Freital was created in 1921 by the forced merger of three Saxon industrial towns — Döhlen, Potschappel, and Deuben — making it one of the youngest municipalities in Germany when it issued this note barely two years later. The 2,000,000 Mark denomination places it squarely in the summer of 1923, when German hyperinflation was accelerating fast enough that denominations in the millions were already becoming inadequate within weeks of printing.
Johannes Pässler was a Dresden-Neustadt commercial printer, not a specialist security firm, which is precisely why the watermarked paper mattered — it was the most accessible fraud deterrent available to a small municipal issuer with no relationship to Reichsdruckerei.