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200 000 Mark Lohnscheck
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Mengen (Württemberg) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 165 × 106 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | B No. Stadtgemeinde Mengen. Mk. 200 000 Lohnscheck. Die Oberamtssparkasse Saulgau zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus unserem Guthaben an Ueberbringer Zweihunderttausend Mark. Mengen, den ........ August 1923. Stadtpflege. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and shows the obverse text bleeding through the thin paper in mirror image, with the impressed circular stamp of the Stadtgemeinde Mengen visible to the lower right. No additional design elements or lettering are present. |
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Mengen is a small town in the Swabia region of Württemberg, and this 200,000 Mark Lohnscheck — a payroll cheque — dates from the hyperinflationary peak of 1923, when municipal authorities across Germany were authorized to issue emergency wage instruments because Reichsbank notes simply could not be printed and distributed fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. The Lohnscheck format was specifically designed for wage disbursement, not general retail circulation, which means these saw heavy handling in a very short window before the denomination itself became worthless.
Small municipal issuers like Mengen produced these in limited runs, often on whatever paper stock was locally available. Survivors are scarcer than the more famous city issues.