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2 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Bamberg (notgeld), City of |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 12#225b |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Bamberg Zwei Millionen Mark Bamberg, Sep. 1923 Oberbürgermeister Geheims Rat. |
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| Protection description | Wellenbundel (Keller #133) |
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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.