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2 000 000 Mark Vorschuß-Verein
| Issuer | Vorschuß-Verein e.G.m.u.H. Mosbach |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 2 000 000 Mark (2 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper Notgutschein with a repetitive diamond-pattern guilloche underprint in olive-green bearing the word VORSCHUSS as a large watermark-style overprint across the centre field. The denomination "Zwei Millionen Mark" is typeset in bold Gothic blackletter script at the centre, flanked above by the serial number and numeral value at the top margin. An official circular ink stamp of the Vorschuß-Verein e.G.m.u.H. Mosbach is applied at lower right, accompanied by three manuscript signatures below the issuer lines. |
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| Obverse lettering | No 2093 ☆ 2 000 000 Mark Der Vorschuß-Verein e. G. m. u. H. in Mosbach zahlt gegen diesen Notgutschein bei Vorzeigung Zwei Millionen Mark Mosbach, den 24. August 1923 Vorschuß-Verein Mosbach Der Aufsichtsrat: e. G. m. u. H. Der Vorstand: Dieser Schein ist nur im Bezirk Mosbach zu verwenden und muß bis zum 31. Oktober 1923 bei uns eingereicht sein. |
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Mosbach's Vorschuß-Verein — a cooperative credit society of the type established under the Schulze-Delitzsch model — issued this note during the hyperinflationary peak of 1923, when municipal authorities, private banks, and cooperative institutions across Germany were legally permitted to issue Notgeld to compensate for the Reich's inability to supply sufficient currency. Two million marks, a sum that would have represented a comfortable annual salary just four years earlier, was by mid-1923 barely sufficient for a loaf of bread.
Local cooperative-issued Notgeld from smaller Baden towns like Mosbach survives in far smaller quantities than the more aggressively printed urban series.