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20 000 000 Mark Wurzach
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Wurzach (Stadtschultheißenamt) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ochre Notgeld on plain paper, printed in blue by letterpress. The central panel carries the issue date, a town coat-of-arms underprint in yellow, and two handwritten official signatures above a serial number. Left vignette shows the Mühltor-Turm, right vignette the Rathaus, both rendered in fine line engraving. The denomination "Zwanzig Millionen Mark" appears in large Gothic script across the lower third. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted cream paper reverse with a faint ruled grid pattern visible in the stock, entirely unadorned with text or vignettes. |
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Wurzach was a small Württemberg market town, and its Stadtschultheißenamt — essentially the mayor's administrative office — was among hundreds of German municipal authorities that issued their own emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923. The 20,000,000 Mark denomination places this note in the mid-phase of that collapse, before denominations climbed into the billions and trillions later that autumn.
Printed locally by J. Marquart, the production quality reflects the constrained circumstances of a small-town printer pressed into service as a de facto currency manufacturer.