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20 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Ludwigshafen am Rhein (City of Ludwigshafen am Rhein) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Ludwigshafen am Rhein ZWANZIG MILLIONEN MARK GUTSCHEIN ÜBER ZWANZIG MILLIONEN MARK DER STADT LUDWIGSHAFEN LUDWIGSHAFEN A.RHEIN 31.AUG.1923 * DER OBERBÜRGERMSTR: Dieser Gutschein wird spätestens zum 1.Januar 1924 zur Einlösung aufgerufen. |
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| Reverse lettering | ZWANZIG·MILLIONEN·MARK |
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Ludwigshafen's municipal administration — like hundreds of German city governments in 1923 — was forced into the business of emergency currency issuance simply because the Reichsbank could not print fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation. By August of that year, a 20-million Mark denomination was barely sufficient for basic transactions; many of these Notgeld issues were rendered functionally obsolete within weeks of printing.
The printer here, Weiss & Hameier, was a local Ludwigshafen firm — genuinely local production, not a job farmed out to one of the major specialty printers like Giesecke & Devrient. The facsimile signature attributed to Bürgermeister Weiss raises the obvious question of whether the signatory shared a name with the printing house, though no documented connection has been established.