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2 000 000 Mark Darmstädter- und Nationalbank
| Issuer | Darmstädter- und Nationalbank, Filiale Pforzheim |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 134 × 90 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain salmon-pink paper note of Notgeld type, with a fine scroll-pattern guilloche underprint covering the entire field. The serial number and denomination in Mark appear in the upper corners, flanking the large bold letterpress title NOT-SCHECK at centre top. Beneath, the full text of the cheque order is set in a mix of script and roman typefaces, instructing the Süddeutsche Disconto-Gesellschaft A.-G., Filiale Pforzheim, to pay the bearer two million Mark, dated Pforzheim, 25 August 1923. The note is completed at lower left and right by two manuscript signatures on behalf of the Darmstädter- und Nationalbank Komm.-Ges. d. Akt., Filiale Pforzheim, and the printer's imprint of Gebr. Bode, Pforzheim appears in small type at the foot, all enclosed within an ornate typographic border. |
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| Obverse lettering | No. 7063 Mk. 2000000 NOT-SCHECK (gültig bis 30. September 1923) Die Süddeutsche Disconto-Gesellschaft A.-G. Filiale Pforzheim zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus unserem Guthaben an den Ueberbringer Mark Zwei Millionen Pforzheim, den 25. August 1923. Darmstädter- und Nationalbank Komm.-Ges. d. Akt. Filiale Pforzheim Druck von Gebr. Bode, Pforzheim. |
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The Darmstädter- und Nationalbank — commonly abbreviated Danat-Bank — was one of Germany's major commercial banks, and its Pforzheim branch issued this note during the peak months of the Weimar hyperinflation, when regional branches of private banks were authorized to print emergency currency (Notgeld) to keep commerce moving. Gebr. Bode was a local Pforzheim printer, not a specialist banknote firm, which is characteristic of the period — procurement was opportunistic, and any press that could handle the volume was pressed into service.
Pforzheim's identity as Germany's jewelry and precision-instrument manufacturing center meant its local economy had acute cash-flow demands even as the Mark collapsed around it.