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2 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Bünde i. Westf. (City of Bünde, Westphalia) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 2 000 000 Mark (2 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Green and white Notgeld voucher printed in lithography, with a decorative rectangular border enclosing four circular corner vignettes each bearing the inscription 'STADT BÜNDE i. WESTF.' The denomination '2,000,000' appears in the upper and lower margins, while the central text is set in ornate Fraktur script reading 'Gutschein der Stadt Bünde i. Westf.' above the large numeral '2,000,000' flanked by 'Mark' on each side. A pale architectural underprint is visible behind the central text, and the date 'Bünde, den 20. August 1923' appears at lower left alongside a serial letter 'B' and number, with multiple manuscript signatures below the printed authority line 'Der Magistrat'. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Bünde i. Westf. Mark 2,000,000 Mark Zwei Millionen Die Stadtkasse löst diesen Gutschein bis 1. Dezember 1923 ein. Bünde, den 20. August 1923 Der Magistrat STADT BÜNDE i. WESTF. 2,000,000 |
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Bünde was a small linen-weaving town with no central bank and no means of importing currency fast enough to keep pace with the hyperinflation of 1923. Like hundreds of German municipalities that year, it resorted to Notgeld — emergency money printed locally and issued on civic authority. W. Cordes, a lithographic firm operating within the town itself, produced this 2,000,000 Mark note, which means the entire process from order to circulation could be measured in days rather than weeks.
By the time denominations reached the millions, the notes were often obsolete before the ink dried.