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200 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Finanzdeputation Bremen |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld printed in brown tones on plain paper, set entirely in Gothic blackletter script. The denomination '200 Millionen Mark' appears in large bold type at centre, flanked by two watermill vignettes in underprint, with the heading 'Gutschein über' arching above in cursive lettering. The lower portion carries a three-line redemption clause, the issue date 'Bremen, den 20. September 1923', the issuing authority 'Die Finanzdeputaton', two manuscript signatures, a circular official seal at lower left, and a serial number in green at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in intaglio (Kupfertiefdruck) in warm sepia tones, the reverse carries a large allegorical vignette of a crowned, draped female figure holding a trident and a heraldic shield bearing the Bremen key-and-cross arms, seated beside a recumbent lion, with an anchor at lower left and a church spire in the right background. The denomination '200 MILLIONEN' is set in bold type at upper left and upper right. A rectangular cartouche at the base bears the legend 'FREIE HANSESTADT BREMEN' in block capitals, with the printer's imprint 'KUPFERTIEFDRUCK CARL SCHÜNEMANN BREMEN' below. |
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Bremen's Finanzdeputation issued its own emergency currency during the hyperinflation peak of 1923, as the municipal and regional authorities scrambling to produce Notgeld at sufficiently high denominations were outrunning the Reichsbank's capacity to keep up with collapsing purchasing power. By late 1923, 200 million Mark bought roughly what a single Mark had purchased five years earlier.
Carl Schünemann was a Bremen-based publishing and printing house, and the city's reliance on a local commercial printer rather than a specialist security printer was entirely typical of the Notgeld period's logistical desperation.