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2 000 000 Mark Teppichfabrikzentrale
| Issuer | Teppichfabrikzentrale A.-G. Leipzig |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 2 000 000 Mark (2 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie A Gutschein über ZWEI Millionen Die Einlösung dieses Gutscheines erfolgt nach Aufruf spesenfrei im Verrechnungswege durch die Kasse der Teppichfabrikzentrale A.-G. Leipzig, Brühl 71, gegen Reichsbanknoten oder Verrechnungsschecks. Auerbach / Leipzig, 18. 8. 23. AUERBACHER TEPPICH |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted save for a blind show-through of the obverse text, visible in mirror image through the thin paper stock, with no independent design elements, vignettes, or additional inscriptions. |
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Teppichfabrikzentrale A.-G. was a carpet manufacturing and trading company headquartered in Leipzig, and this 2,000,000 Mark note is a piece of Notgeld issued during the hyperinflation of 1923 — when private firms, municipalities, and industry associations across Germany were printing their own emergency money because the Reichsbank simply could not keep pace with demand. By mid-1923, denominations that would have seemed absurd eighteen months earlier were routine.
Corporate Notgeld from industrial issuers like this one tends to be underappreciated relative to the decorative municipal issues, but it documents something the municipal series cannot: how deeply the monetary collapse penetrated commercial infrastructure.