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2 Mark
| Issuer | Kurdirektion Bad Neuenahr |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Firm, textured white paper with multicolour letterpress printing. Text is rendered in black and white with no serial number present. The note bears the issuing authority designation of the A.-G. Bad Neuenahr Bank, Abteilung BN, with the cheque text and validity clause printed across the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | 2 MK-MK 2 A.-G. BAD NEUENAHR Bank.Abt. BN Dieser Scheck verliert seine Gültigkeit am 31.Dezbr.1922 Zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus unsern Guthaben an der Inhaber - MK.2. Neuenahr.1.März 1922 Die Kurdirektion |
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Bad Neuenahr was a spa town in the Rhineland whose municipal and resort authorities — like hundreds of German localities — issued their own emergency paper during the hyperinflationary chaos of the early 1920s. The issuer here, the Kurdirektion, was the administrative body overseeing the thermal baths and resort operations, not a bank or municipal treasury. That a spa directorate was printing circulating currency says everything necessary about the breakdown of the Reichsbank's distribution capacity in 1922.
The DeNG reference places this among six known variants in the series, distinguished by minor typographic or stamp differences. Watermarked paper was a deliberate nod toward legitimacy — most Kurort notgeld of this period used plain stock.