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2 000 000 Mark Allgemeine Deutsche Credit-Anstalt
| Issuer | Allgemeine Deutsche Credit-Anstalt (via Commerz- und Privat-Bank AG, Filiale Leipzig) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Nr. 24848 Mk. 2.000.000 A Die Commerz- und Privat-Bank Aktiengesellschaft Filiale Leipzig wolle zahlen gegen diesen Scheck aus unserm Guthaben an Überbringer Zwei Millionen Mark Leipzig, d. 16. Aug. 1923. Allgemeine Deutsche Credit-Anstalt kontrolliert: Nur zur Verrechnung Wezel & Naumann A.-G. Leipzig. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is plain unprinted cream paper, heavily worn and reinforced along the central vertical fold with an applied paper strip. A purple oval rubber stamp at left reads 'Brauerei C. W. Naumann Akt. Ges. Leipzig – Plagwitz', and a blue printed dealer's stamp at right reads 'K. F. Koehlers Antiquarium' accompanied by manuscript pencil notations. |
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The Allgemeine Deutsche Credit-Anstalt, headquartered in Leipzig, was one of Germany's older provincial credit institutions — but by mid-1923 it was doing what nearly every German bank, municipality, and industrial firm was doing: printing its own emergency money. The Reichsbank simply could not supply currency fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation, so regional notgeld at astronomical denominations became the functional medium of daily commerce. The routing through Commerz- und Privat-Bank's Leipzig branch suggests the ADCA was using an existing distribution network rather than issuing directly over its own counters.
Wezel & Naumann were a Leipzig printing and engraving house with genuine technical capacity — their output during 1922–23 was enormous, serving dozens of local issuers simultaneously.