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2 000 000 Mark Kreis Wetzlar
| Issuer | Kreiskommunalkasse des Kreises Wetzlar |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 2 000 000 Mark (2 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Kreiskommunalkasse des Kreises Wetzlar zahlt dem Einlieferer dieses Gutscheines Zwei Millionen Mark Wetzlar, den 23. August 1923 Der Tag der Einlösung wird öffentlich bekannt gemacht. Der Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses Die Mitglieder des Kreisausschusses Scharfes Druckereien Wetzlar |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a detailed letterpress vignette of a medieval hilltop castle complex — identifiable as Burg Gleiberg or a local Wetzlar-area fortification — rendered in a fine pen-and-ink illustrative style, with multiple towers, turrets, and fortified walls rising above a treeline, and a townscape of half-timbered houses visible in the foreground below the escarpment. |
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Kreis Wetzlar was a small administrative district in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau, and like hundreds of similar bodies across Germany in late 1923, its Kreiskommunalkasse — the district's municipal treasury, not a bank — was forced into emergency currency issuance as the Reichsmark collapsed into hyperinflation. The 2,000,000 Mark denomination places this firmly in the mid-to-late inflation period, before the denominations climbed into the billions and trillions that autumn.
Scharfes Druckereien was a local Wetzlar press, not a specialist security printer. That shows.