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2 000 000 Mark Meguin
| Issuer | Meguin A.G. Butzbach |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld coupon printed in dark red on cream paper, with a decorative floral and scrollwork border framing the entire face. The denomination numeral "2" appears in large bold type at upper centre within a guilloche panel, flanked on each side by the stylised monogram of Meguin A.G. in ornamental cartouches. The lower portion carries a multi-line letterpress redemption text in German, dated Butzbach, 15 August 1923, above the bold issuer legend "MEGUIN A.G. BUTZBACH HESSEN", with a serial number at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | 2 Millionen Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von den Kassen unserer, sowie von den Butzbacher Filialen der Darmstädter und Nationalbank, der Mitteldeutschen Creditbank und der Commerz- und Privatbank jederzeit bis spätestens den 15. September ds. Js. eingelöst. Eine Einlösung findet ferner statt bei Gebr. Röchling, Bank, Frankfurt a. Main und bei der Filiale der Direction der Disconto-Gesellschaft in Giessen. Die Gutscheine verlieren ihre Gültigkeit am 1. Oktober 1923, wenn sie bis dahin zur Einlösung nicht vorgelegt wurden. Butzbach, den 15. August 1923 Die Generaldirektion MEGUIN A. G. BUTZBACH HESSEN |
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Meguin A.G. was a chemical and lubricants manufacturer based in Butzbach, Hesse, and like thousands of German firms in 1923, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to meet payroll when the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough physical banknotes to keep pace with hyperinflation. By the time denominations reached the millions of Marks, these notes had a useful lifespan measured in days before the face value became economically meaningless.
Corporate Notgeld of this period was rarely redeemed in practice — the issuing firms often collapsed or the notes were simply abandoned as currency reform overtook them. The Rentenmark stabilization in November 1923 rendered the entire class obsolete almost overnight.