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20 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Pößneck |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Plain buff-toned paper reverse without pictorial vignette, carrying a large pale watermark-style numeral "20" as a central underprint across the full field. The text is arranged in six repeated two-column blocks in Gothic script, each block consisting of the validity notice "Gültig nur mit Trockenstempel und Nummer" followed by the standard anti-counterfeiting statutory warning; small star ornaments separate the heading from the body text in each block. |
| Reverse lettering | Gültig nur mit Trockenstempel und Nummer Wer Papiergeld nachmacht oder verfälscht oder nachgemachtes oder verfälschtes sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter zwei Jahren bestraft |
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Pößneck is a small industrial town in Thuringia, and like hundreds of German municipalities it briefly became its own monetary authority during the hyperinflation emergency of 1923. These Magistrat-issued Notgeld notes were a stopgap — the Reichsbank simply could not print and distribute currency fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power, so local governments, businesses, and even private firms stepped in to fill the wage-payment gap.
The dry seal was the municipality's primary authentication device, applied individually to each note. Serial numbering was equally ad hoc — production runs varied widely and records were poorly kept, making precise census figures for most Thuringian municipal issues impossible today.