20 000 000 Mark

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.