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2 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Bergedorf (City Treasury of Bergedorf) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 2 000 000 Mark (2 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld voucher printed on pale rose paper with an overall geometric guilloche underprint. The denomination '2 Millionen Mark' is set in bold blackletter (Fraktur) script across the centre, above a block of redemption text in German issued by the Stadtkasse Bergedorf and dated 16. August 1923. The vertical margins carry the denomination legend 'Zwei Millionen Mark' in blackletter, and a circular violet official stamp of the city of Bergedorf appears at lower left alongside two manuscript authorisation signatures below the issuer line 'Die Stadtkasse.' and a 'Kontrolliert:' control line. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über 2 Millionen Mark Die Stadtkasse Bergedorf löst diesen Gutschein bis 31. August 1923 gegen andere gesetzliche Zahlungsmittel ein. Bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt wird dieser Gutschein von den hiesigen Banken sowie von der Sparkasse der Stadt Bergedorf als Zahlungsmittel entgegengenommen. Bergedorf, den 16. August 1923. Die Stadtkasse. Kontrolliert: Zwei Millionen Mark Nr. C Bergedorfer Buchdruckerei von Ed. Wagner. |
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Bergedorf was a small independent town northeast of Hamburg — it only merged into greater Hamburg in 1937 — and its 1923 notgeld issues reflect exactly the kind of hyperinflationary desperation that pushed every municipal treasury in Germany to commission its own emergency paper. By mid-1923, denominations were escalating week by week, and a 2,000,000 Mark note would have been a routine transaction value for basic goods within days of issue.
Printed locally by Ed. Wagner's press, which served the town's ordinary commercial needs, not a specialist securities printer. The production quality reflects that.