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2 000 000 Mark Reichsbahndirektion
| Issuer | Reichsbahndirektion Elberfeld |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 2000000 Gutschein der Reichsbahndirektion Elberfeld. Zwei Millionen Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von allen Reichsbahnkassen (Hauptkasse, Stations-, Güter-, Fahrkarten- u. Gepäckkassen) des Direktionsbezirks Elberfeld in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert mit dem 10. September 1923 seine Gültigkeit. Elberfeld, den 16. August 1923 Reichsbahndirektion Nachahmung strafbar B.Nr |
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| Protection type | Embossed seal |
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The Reichsbahndirektion Elberfeld was one of the regional directorates of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, and like many non-banking institutions during the hyperinflation of 1923, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to pay workers when the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough physical notes fast enough. The 2,000,000 Mark denomination places this note in the middle phase of the collapse, before the truly absurd figures arrived that autumn.
R. L. Friderichs was a local Elberfeld printer, not a specialist currency producer. The embossed seal was the issuer's primary attempt at authority — functional, if rudimentary.