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2 000 000 Mark Hennef
| Issuer | Bürgermeisterei Hennef |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 2 000 000 Marks (2 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Blue and cream letterpress Notgeld voucher with a dense guilloche border and wavy-line underprint framing the central text area. The large denomination legend 'Zwei Millionen Mark' is set in Gothic blackletter script over an oval guilloche vignette, beneath the issuing authority 'Bürgermeisterei Hennef' and series designation 'Serie B' in the upper field. A multi-line redemption clause in small Gothic script, the place and date 'Hennef (Sieg), 24. August 1923', an inked manuscript signature, and a serial number in the lower left complete the face. |
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| Signature(s) | Nenenfels (Beigeordneter) |
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Hennef is a small town in the Sieg valley east of Bonn, and its municipal authority — the Bürgermeisterei — issued this note during the peak inflationary spiral of 1923, when the Reichsmark was collapsing fast enough that million-mark denominations became routine Notgeld rather than novelties. The Rhenania-Druckerei in Bonn handled a substantial volume of emergency municipal currency for Rhine-region issuers during this period, which made logistical sense for smaller administrations without printing contacts of their own.
The signatory, Nenenfels, held the title of Beigeordneter — a deputized municipal official, not the Bürgermeister himself — suggesting the note was authorized and signed at a relatively low administrative level, possibly during the absence or overextension of senior staff under the crisis conditions of that summer.