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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 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Uniface cheque-format notgeld printed in violet-purple on cream paper, with ornate Art Nouveau-style vertical border panels on both flanks enclosing diamond-shaped lozenges bearing the denomination numeral '2.000.000' in large Gothic script. The central field carries a lavender guilloche underprint above which the issuing legend reads 'Die Commerz- und Privat-Bank Aktiengesellschaft Filiale Leipzig' in blackletter, followed by the payment clause 'wolle zahlen gegen diesen Scheck aus unserm Guthaben an Überbringer'. The denomination 'Zwei Millionen Mark' appears in a ruled rectangular cartouche at centre, with the date 'Leipzig, d. 16. Aug. 1923' at lower left, the issuing authority 'Allgemeine Deutsche Credit-Anstalt' at lower right, a red diagonal cancel overstamp reading 'Nur zur Verrechnung', and three manuscript signatures below a 'kontrolliert:' control line; series letter 'A' appears in the upper-right corner. |
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| Reverse lettering | Brauerei C. W. Naumann Akt. Ges. Leipzig – Plagwitz K. F. Koehlers Antiquarium |
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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.