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2 000 000 Mark Weinsberg
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Weinsberg |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain white laid paper with grey overall impression; a burgundy border frame and horizontal band frame the note, with all principal text printed in black. A five-digit carmine serial number with an asterisk suffix appears to the right. |
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| Reverse description | White ground with black text throughout; a burgundy border frame encloses the design, with a printed photographic vignette of physician and poet Justinus Kerner centred on the note. |
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Weinsberg is a small town in Württemberg better known for the 1140 siege in which Countess Idelinde allegedly negotiated safe passage for the women of the castle, each permitted to carry one person on her back — the men escaped this way, and the story became one of medieval Germany's most repeated anecdotes. Whether the Stadtgemeinde consciously traded on that local pride when issuing emergency currency in 1923 is unknown, but Weinsberg notgeld from this period circulated through one of the most acute phases of Weimar hyperinflation.
The watermarked paper is notable for a municipal issue of this denomination — most town-level notgeld at two million marks was printed on whatever was available.