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2 000 000 Mark Messamt für die Mustermessen in Leipzig
| Issuer | Messamt für die Mustermessen in Leipzig |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | 2,000,000 MARK ★ 2,000,000 MARK Zwei Millionen 2,000,000 Mark (Reichspapiergeld) zahlen wir gegen diesen Notgeldschein bis einen Monat nach Aufruf durch unsere messamtliche Wirtschafts- und Exportzeitung Leipzig, im August 1923 MESSAMT FÜR DIE MUSTERMESSEN IN LEIPZIG TECHNISCHE MESSE ZU LEIPZIG ADOLF FORKER, LEIPZIG |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in dark red on cream paper without pictorial vignettes. The large heading "Notgeld" in ornate Gothic script dominates the upper portion, followed by a text block in Gothic type stating the note was issued with the approval of the Reichsfinanzministerium for the Herbstmesse 1923. The issuer name "MESSAMT FÜR DIE MUSTERMESSEN IN LEIPZIG" is set in large capitals at centre, flanked left and right by the stylised double-M trade fair monograms. A historical quotation in italic script dated anno 1581 concerning the freedom of market visitors occupies the lower half. |
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The Messamt für die Mustermessen in Leipzig — the trade fair office managing the Leipzig Sample Fairs — was among the hundreds of German commercial and municipal bodies forced to issue their own emergency currency during the hyperinflation peak of 1923. The Leipzig trade fairs had operated continuously since the medieval period, and by mid-1923 the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough physical notes to keep commerce moving between fair cycles.
Adolf Forker was a Leipzig-based printer, which means this note was produced and circulated entirely within the city — no external printing house involved. At two million Mark, a denomination that would have seemed extraordinary eighteen months earlier, this was routine pocket change by August 1923.