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2 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Ludwigshafen am Rhein |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | Weiss & Hambier, Ludwigshafen a/Rh. |
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| Obverse description | Pale violet-grey Notgeld voucher (Gutschein) printed on plain paper, with a fine guilloche border and decorative corner rosettes forming the outer frame. The issuer's name in Gothic blackletter script heads the note, followed by the denomination in large calligraphic lettering at centre, with a faint municipal arms watermark-style underprint behind. The date and place of issue appear at lower left, with the title 'Der Oberbürgermeister' and a manuscript facsimile signature at lower right, and the redemption clause in smaller type at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse printed entirely in pale violet-grey, with a scalloped guilloche medallion occupying the central field, within which the numeral '2000000' is set in large outlined digits. A fine engine-turned rectangular border with a saw-tooth outer edge frames the entire design, with no additional text or vignette. |
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Ludwigshafen issued this 2-million Mark note during the summer of 1923, when municipal and commercial authorities across Germany were printing their own emergency currency — Notgeld — because the Reichsbank simply could not supply denominations fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation. By August of that year, prices were doubling roughly every few days, which meant a note in this denomination could be rendered inadequate for basic transactions within a week of printing.
Weiss & Hambier were a local printing firm, not a specialist security printer. That provenance shows.