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200 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Freital (City of Freital) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 200 000 Mark (200 000) |
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| Obverse description | Olive-yellow tinted vignette enclosed within a ruled border, with a bold silhouette of a miner in a straining posture pushing a loaded coal tram on which the denomination '200000 MARK' appears in white lettering. Industrial infrastructure — cooling towers, pit-head winding gear, and factory buildings emitting steam — fills the background. At lower left, a notation of Reichs-Finanzministerium approval; at lower right, the place and date of issue with the Bürgermeister's facsimile signature. |
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| Obverse lettering | ZWEIHUNDERTTAUSEND MARK NOTGELD DER INDUSTRIESTADT FREITAL 200000 MARK Zugelassen vom Reichs-Finanzministerium FREITAL, den 10. August 1923. Der Bürgermeister: |
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Freital was barely three years old when it issued this note. The city had been created in 1921 through the administrative merger of several industrial communes south of Dresden — Döhlen, Deuben, and Potschappel among them — and its municipal finances were already under pressure from the collapsing German currency before it had properly established itself as a functioning entity. The 200,000 Mark denomination places this firmly in the mid-1923 hyperinflation wave, before the truly astronomical figures of the autumn.
Notgeld of this type was printed locally out of necessity, not ambition. The Reichsbank simply could not supply enough currency fast enough.