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2 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Amtskörperschaft Göppingen |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 2 000 000 Mark (2 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress Notgeld note printed on cream paper, with a double-rule border enclosing the entire design. A central landscape vignette at the top depicts a panoramic view of rolling hills and valleys in the Swabian Alb region, flanked on each side by denomination panels reading '2 Millionen' in Gothic blackletter script. The lower portion carries the issuing authority legend in bold Fraktur type, with authorization text to the left referencing the Reichsfinanzminister and attribution text to the right, above the place and date line 'Göppingen, 23. August 1923' and two manuscript facsimile signatures below the titles Oberamtmann and Oberamtspfleger. |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress reverse on cream paper, with geometric diamond-pattern side panels flanking a central square vignette of a kneeling figure in traditional Swabian peasant attire drinking from a natural spring, rendered in a bold woodcut-style graphic. Circular denomination discs displaying the numeral '2' appear at left and right, with 'Millionen' in Gothic blackletter below each. A Swabian dialect motto in Fraktur script is set across the top of the central panel, and the serial number appears in a decorative cartouche at the foot of the central vignette. |
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Göppingen's municipal authority — the Amtskörperschaft, a district-level administrative body covering the town and surrounding parishes — issued this 2,000,000 Mark note during the summer of 1923, when Reichsbank currency was arriving too slowly and in insufficient quantities to meet basic daily commerce. Emergency money of this type, Notgeld, was printed locally by the thousands across Germany as hyperinflation rendered denominations obsolete within weeks of printing.
By mid-1923, a 2,000,000 Mark note was worth roughly the price of a loaf of bread — briefly.