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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Bergedorf (City of Bergedorf) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed on a cream-beige underprint composed of a geometric lattice pattern with interlocking angular motifs, enclosed within a double-rule black border. The issuer title 'Gutschein der Stadt Bergedorf' is set in bold blackletter script across the upper portion, with the denomination 'Fünf Millionen Mark' rendered in large red and black Fraktur lettering dominating the centre. The lower portion carries a two-line redemption clause in small Roman type, followed by the date 'Bergedorf, den 23. August 1923', a serial number at lower left, and the manuscript signature of Der Magistrat at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Bergedorf Fünf Millionen Mark Die Einlösung erfolgt durch die Stadtkasse gegen andere Zahlungsmittel. Der Gutschein kann vom Magistrat vom 1. Oktober 1923 ab aufgerufen werden. Bergedorf, den 23. August 1923. Der Magistrat. Nr. |
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Bergedorf, now a district of Hamburg, was still an independent municipality in 1923 and issued its own notgeld like hundreds of German towns scrambling to keep commerce functional during the hyperinflation collapse. The five-million-mark denomination places this note squarely in the late summer–autumn phase of the crisis, when the Reichsbank's printing capacity had become so overwhelmed that local authorities, private firms, and even railway operators issued emergency currency as a matter of survival, not policy.
Municipal issues from small towns like Bergedorf were rarely printed in large quantities and circulated only within tight geographic limits, which means surviving examples often show concentrated wear patterns — heavy folds from counter use, minimal edge damage — rather than the broad attrition of widely distributed national currency.