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2 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtverwaltung Kaiserslautern (City Administration of Kaiserslautern) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue and black on a fine confetti-pattern underprint. A large stylised numeral '2' within a shield-shaped vignette occupies the upper centre, surmounted by the issuer legend 'STADT KAISERSLAUTERN'. The denomination 'MILLIONEN MARK' is set in bold letterpress type across the centre, with the circular city seal of Kaiserslautern below. Vertical blue border panels on either side carry text in rotated letterpress, and two manuscript signatures appear at the foot above the printed titles 'BÜRGERMEISTER' and 'FINANZRAT', with the series letter 'LIT. L' and a serial number to either side of the central vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | KAISERSLAUTERN · 15 · AUGUST · 1923 |
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Kaiserslautern issued this note during the summer of 1923, when Reichsbank currency was depreciating faster than central authorities could resupply it. Municipal and district governments across the Rhineland were printing their own Notgeld not as a novelty but out of administrative necessity — payroll, market transactions, and basic commerce had broken down without sufficient small and mid-denomination paper in circulation.
The Rhineland's situation was compounded by the French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr, which began in January 1923 and disrupted the entire western German supply chain. A 2,000,000 Mark denomination, unthinkable two years earlier, was already insufficient within weeks of printing.