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2 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtrat Karlsruhe (City Council of Karlsruhe) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Landeshauptstadt Karlsruhe über Zwei Millionen Mark Dieser Schein wird von den Städt. Kassen in Zahlung genommen und nach Aufruf in den Karlsruher Zeitungen eingelöst. Karlsruhe, im August 1923. Der Stadtrat Nur mit Trockenstempel gültig |
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| Reverse lettering | 2.000.000 MARK MARK Gutschein der Landeshauptstadt Karlsruhe Kunstdruckerei Arthur Albrecht & Cie. |
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Karlsruhe notgeld from the hyperinflation peak of 1923, issued by the city council directly — a municipal authority stepping in because Reichsbank notes were simply losing value faster than they could be printed and distributed. The 2,000,000 Mark denomination places this squarely in the mid-1923 acceleration, before the autumn months when denominations climbed into the billions and trillions.
Arthur Albrecht & Cie. was a local Karlsruhe commercial press, not a specialist security printer. The dry stamp was the primary authentication device — a low-tech solution that reflects both the speed of production required and the limited options available to municipal issuers working outside the formal banking infrastructure.