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| Uitgever | Stadt Duisburg (City of Duisburg) |
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| Jaar | 1923 |
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| Vorm | Rectangular |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Printed in blue and green on white paper, the obverse carries a large numeral '20' underprint in blue at centre, overlaid by a green gothic-script banner reading 'Millionen Mk.' The denomination '20·000·000' is set in bold blue numerals below, with a multi-line text block in Kurrent script stating the obligation to pay at the Städtische Sparkasse and Stadthauptkasse in Duisburg. The circular 'Stadt Duisburg – Notgeld' seal with civic arms is struck at centre-lower, flanked by the place and date 'DUISBURG, DEN 15. SEPT. 1923' to the left and the manuscript signature of the Oberbürgermeister to the right. A fine guilloche border frames the entire design, with the legend '20 MILLIONEN MARK' repeated in the top and bottom margins and 'DUISBURG AM RHEIN' running vertically along both side margins; a decorative ornamental vignette with crossed tools and anchor motif occupies the right-hand panel. |
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| Beveiligingstype | Watermark |
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Duisburg's hyperinflation notgeld sits at a peculiar intersection of municipal desperation and logistical improvisation. By mid-1923, the Reichsbank could not supply denominations fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power, so hundreds of German cities and towns became de facto currency issuers — legally, under emergency provisions that the central government had neither the capacity nor the political will to enforce uniformly.
The watermarked paper is notable: many municipal issues at this denomination simply used whatever stock was available, watermark or not. That Duisburg sourced security paper suggests either existing supplier relationships or a deliberate, if short-lived, attempt at anti-counterfeiting discipline in a monetary environment where the notes would be obsolete within weeks anyway.