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20 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Solingen (City of Solingen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Solingen über 20 000 000 Zwanzig Millionen Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von allen Kassen der Stadtgemeinde Solingen eingelöst. Der Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit nach Aufkündigung in den Solinger Zeitungen. Solingen, 1. September 1923 Der Oberbürgermeister 2 A No 106247 |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in orange on white paper, the centre carries an oval vignette of the Solingen market square ('Markt um 1870') surrounded by a repeated guilloche band bearing 'ROEMRYKE BERGE'. Decorative sword-shaped ornaments with circular chain devices frame both lateral margins, and patriotic verse text runs along the top and bottom borders. |
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Solingen's hyperinflation notgeld was self-printed — Kunststelle Meiningartz was a local commercial art press, not a specialist banknote printer. By mid-1923, Germany's municipal authorities had essentially been abandoned by the Reichsbank to solve their own liquidity crises, and industrial cities like Solingen were issuing emergency denominations that would have been incomprehensible a year earlier. The 20-million-mark face value reflects August or September 1923, when that sum was still worth roughly the price of a loaf of bread — and briefly.
Being locally produced, quality control was inconsistent across the run. Paper stock and ink saturation vary noticeably between surviving examples.