2 000 000 Mark

Bremen's Finanzdeputation issued this 2,000,000 Mark note during the acute phase of Weimar hyperinflation, when municipal and state authorities across Germany were printing emergency Notgeld simply to keep commerce moving — the Reichsbank could not produce denominations fast enough to match the collapsing purchasing power of the mark. By August 1923, two million marks would buy little more than a loaf of bread.

Carl Schünemann was Bremen's dominant commercial printer and handled much of the city-state's inflationary paper across multiple denominations that year. The quick turnaround between design, printing, and release meant quality control was secondary to speed.