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2 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Bamberg (notgeld), City of |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 166 × 83 mm |
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| Obverse description | Firm white paper printed in black and violet. Text in black with a green 5-digit serial number, asterisk to the right of the serial number. A dry embossed seal in an oval at the lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Black and violet letterpress impression on white paper, with a decorative vine-and-leaf border framing the entire note. A central vignette portrays a standing mother clasping an infant, with a small child at her side and a kneeling figure at her feet, rendered in an expressive woodcut-style illustrative technique. The denomination '2 000 000 Mark' appears in ribbon cartouches at upper left and upper right, flanking the central vignette, with the redemption text and the folk verse divided symmetrically in two columns of Gothic script. |
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Bamberg's two-million Mark note dates from the summer of 1923, when Reichsbank supply couldn't keep pace with hyperinflation's demand for ever-larger denominations. Municipal and commercial notgeld at this level weren't curiosities — they were functional emergency currency filling a genuine void in daily commerce, typically overprinted or reprinted within weeks as the mark's purchasing power collapsed further.
The watermark is worth noting: paper security features at this denomination level were not universal among German municipal issuers in 1923, and their presence here suggests Bamberg sourced stock from a supplier still applying standard banknote-grade paper rather than improvising on plain print stock, as many smaller issuers did.