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2 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Landkreis Greiz (District of Greiz, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Uniform ochre-orange ground with a central circular underprint vignette bearing the district seal. Text is entirely set in Fraktur blackletter; the denomination '2 000 000' appears in bold at upper left and right, with the value in words 'Zwei Millionen Mark' in large display type across the centre. A perforated right-hand stub carries the anti-counterfeiting notice in vertical orientation. |
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| Reverse description | Plain ochre-orange paper reverse, unprinted, showing only a faint bleed-through impression of the obverse text and underprint visible through the thin paper stock. |
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Greiz was a small industrial district in eastern Thuringia, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1923, it was forced to issue its own emergency currency — Notgeld — simply to meet payroll as hyperinflation rendered Reichsbank notes functionally worthless within days of printing. The 2,000,000 Mark denomination places this note in the acute phase of the crisis, roughly mid-1923, before the collapse accelerated into the billions and trillions by autumn.
District-level issues like this one were authorised locally, often printed by regional commercial printers with no specialized banknote security infrastructure. Paper quality and print registration vary considerably across surviving examples as a direct consequence.