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2 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Ahrweiler |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | Eduard Kirfel, Ahrweiler |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Zwei Millionen Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von der Kreissparkasse Ahrweiler bezw. deren Zweigstellen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit nach entsprechender Bekanntmachung in den Zeitungen des Kreises. Der Kreis Ahrweiler haftet für die Einlösung. Ahrweiler, den 5. Juli 1923. Der Kreisausschuß des Kreises Ahrweiler: EDUARD KIRFEL, AHRWEILER |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark red and gold on a floral guilloche underprint, enclosed within a decorative frame with a row of repeating 'U' ornaments along the top border. At centre is an octagonal vignette with a profile bust of a helmeted allegorical figure in classical style, flanked on the left by a circular medallion bearing the Ahrweiler district coat of arms, and on the right by a circular medallion with a vignette of an industrial or mining scene. The inscription 'Kreis Ahrweiler' arcs above and 'Zwei Millionen' below the central composition, all in blackletter script. |
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Ahrweiler's Kreisausschuss — the district administrative committee — issued this 2,000,000 Mark note during the summer of 1923, when Reichsbank currency was losing value faster than it could be physically printed and distributed to rural areas. Local authorities across Germany were legally permitted to issue emergency currency, Notgeld, precisely because central supply had collapsed. Eduard Kirfel was a local Ahrweiler printer, not a specialist security printer, which is exactly what you'd expect at this denomination and this moment.
By August 1923, two million marks bought roughly what a single mark had bought eighteen months earlier.