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20 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Annweiler (City of Annweiler) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 20 000 000 Mark (20 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadtgemeinde Annweiler Zwanzig Millionen Mark Jubiläumsausgabe der Stadtrechtsverleihung u. Erhebung z. Freien Reichsstadt Annweiler, den 14. September 1923 Der Bürgermeister: Der Stadteinnehmer: (Translation: Voucher of the municipality of Annweiler / Twenty Million Mark / Anniversary issue commemorating the granting of city rights and elevation to Free Imperial City / Annweiler, 14 September 1923 / The Mayor: The City Collector:) |
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| Reverse lettering | Zwanzig Millionen Mark Annweilers Berge seh ich wieder und ihre Burgdreifaltigkeit, in Ehren alt, vernarbt und bieder, Kronzeugen der Vergangenheit. Dort Scharfenburg, die schlanke feine, vor ihr der Felsklotz Anebos, und hier, als dritter im Vereine, der Reichspfalz Trifels Steinkoloss, Sein Turm mit der Kapelle Erker, der einst die Reichskleinodien barg, des Löwenherzen Richard Kerker wächst mächtig aus des Felsens Mark (Translation: I see Annweiler's mountains again and their castle trinity, honorably old, scarred and honest, key witnesses to the past. There Scharfenburg, the slender, fine one, in front of it the rock Anebos, and here, as the third in the group, the Imperial Palace Trifels' stone colossus, its tower with the oriel chapel, which once held the imperial regalia, Richard the Lionheart's dungeon rises mighty from the rock's marrow) |
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Annweiler am Trifels issued this note at the height of the Weimar hyperinflation, when municipal and regional authorities across Germany were legally permitted — and practically compelled — to print their own emergency currency, known as Notgeld. By the time denominations reached the millions of marks in late 1923, the Reichsbank's printing capacity was overwhelmed, and local issuers had to fill the gap. A 20,000,000 Mark note from a small Palatinate town is entirely consistent with the chaotic monetary conditions of that autumn.
Annweiler's series is catalogued under DeNG 7/8, the standard Grabowski-Mehl reference for German municipal Notgeld of this period.