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2 Mark Darlehnskassenschein
| Issuer | Reichsschuldenverwaltung |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Size | 90 × 64 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown letterpress on salmon-pink paper, the obverse carries the title "Darlehnskassenschein" in bold Fraktur lettering arching across the upper field, below which the denomination "Zwei 2 Mark" is set in large Gothic typeface. Two circular seal impressions of the Reichsschuldenverwaltung, each bearing the Imperial eagle and the numeral 2, flank the lower text block, with the issue date "Berlin, den 15. September 1922" and the issuing authority's name centred beneath the denomination. A watermark eagle vignette is visible at the centre when held to light, and six facsimile signatures appear in two rows at the foot of the note. |
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| Protection description | Imperial German eagle watermark visible in the centre of the note when held to light. |
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The Darlehnskassenscheine were loan treasury notes rather than Reichsbank issues — a distinction that mattered legally even as hyperinflation made it academic. This 2 Mark denomination was issued by the Reichsschuldenverwaltung, the Reich Debt Administration, as part of a parallel small-denomination emergency system that predated but outlasted the more famous inflation-era Notgeld wave. By the time these were printed in 1922, 2 Mark bought almost nothing; the denomination had been eroded to near-irrelevance before the notes even entered circulation.
Print run of just over 12 million is modest by the volume standards of that year.