Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
20 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinderat Berchtesgaden (Market Town Council of Berchtesgaden) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | GEMEINDERAT BERCHTESGADEN. 20 MARK. BÜRGERMEISTER. 20 (in all 4 corners). Black serial number, 4 digits. |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Berchtesgaden's municipal council issued this note during the acute coin shortage of 1922, when German towns and cities were producing emergency currency — Notgeld — in staggering volume to keep local commerce moving as hyperinflation accelerated. By this point the Reichsbank had largely lost control of small-denomination circulation, and thousands of municipal, commercial, and corporate issuers filled the vacuum with their own paper.
The Reinbold attribution and watermark security feature place this among the more deliberately produced examples of Bavarian municipal Notgeld — not a hasty stopgap but something the council apparently wanted done properly, even as the currency it was denominated in was losing value by the week.