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2 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Frankfurt am Main (City of Frankfurt am Main) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper Notgeld voucher (Gutschein) with text-based typographic layout in black letterpress on a pink-red guilloche rosette underprint at centre. The issuer legend 'STADT FRANKFURT AM MAIN' appears at the top in spaced capitals, below which the denomination 'Zwei Millionen Mark' is rendered in bold gothic script across the guilloche vignette. A three-line redemption clause in German text occupies the lower centre, flanked left by a serial number and right by the magistrate's two manuscript signatures above the place and date line 'Frankfurt a. M., 20. August 1923'; the printer's imprint appears at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT FRANKFURT AM MAIN GUTSCHEIN über Zwei Millionen Mark Die Einlösung dieses Scheines erfolgt bei der Stadthauptkasse Frankfurt a. M. Der Zeitpunkt, mit dem die Gültigkeit abläuft, wird öffentlich bekannt gemacht. Der Magistrat: Frankfurt a. M., 20. August 1923. J. MAUBACH & CO., G.M.B.H. FRANKFURT A.M. |
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Frankfurt issued its own emergency currency throughout the hyperinflation crisis, and by mid-1923 municipal authorities were routinely printing denominations that would have seemed absurd eighteen months earlier. This 2,000,000 Mark note is a product of that acceleration — the Reichsmark equivalent purchasing power it represented on the day of issue had effectively evaporated within days of printing.
J. Maubach & Co. was a local Frankfurt commercial printer, not a specialist banknote firm. That matters: the security features, if any, were minimal by design, because the notes were expected to cycle out of use faster than counterfeiting could become profitable.