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3 000 000 Mark Bautz
| Issuer | J. Bautz A.G. Erntemaschinen-Werk, Saulgau |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Uniface Notgeld voucher printed in dark blue-black on cream paper, its entire field enclosed within a dense guilloche border of interlocking geometric and rosette patterns. A large monogram vignette in the upper centre is surmounted by a wheat-sheaf motif. The denomination "drei Millionen Mark" is set in large Gothic blackletter type across the centre of the note, with the numeral value "Mark: 3,000,000." stated in the upper right; the series and serial number appear in the upper left, with a red circular control stamp overlaid. Two manuscript signatures in ink appear at the lower right above the place-and-date line "Saulgau, den 1. September 1923." |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über drei Millionen Mark Dieser Gutschein wird bis 1. November 1923 gegen Verrechnung sofort, gegen bar nach Behebung der Bargeldknappheit von der J. Bautz A.-G., Erntemaschinen-Werk Saulgau, sowie von der Gewerbebank Saulgau in Zahlung genommen. Fristverlängerung vorbehalten. J. Bautz A. G. Erntemaschinen-Werk, Saulgau/Württ. Saulgau, den 1. September 1923 |
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J. Bautz A.G. was an agricultural machinery manufacturer in Saulgau — not a bank, not a municipality — yet in the hyperinflation summer of 1923 it was issuing its own emergency currency in denominations measured in the millions. This was Notgeld at its most extreme: private industrial firms filling the void left by a Reichsmark so debased that payroll couldn't wait for official notes to arrive from Berlin.
Gebr. Edel, a local Saulgau printer, produced the note — a purely regional operation from design to distribution, circulating among workers and local merchants who had little choice but to accept it.