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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Nürnberg (City of Nuremberg) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 5 000 000 Marks (5 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issued in the Expressionist graphic style, printed in dark brown and red on a pale ochre ground. The central panel carries the large numeral '5000000' at the top and the denomination in bold Gothic blackletter script below, with a diagonal line guilloche underprint filling the field; a two-line text in italic script reads 'Zahlt die Stadhauptkasse Nürnberg für diesen Schein', followed by the place and date of issue and two manuscript facsimile signatures. The decorative border consists of a repeating geometric framework interspersed with six heraldic vignettes of the Nuremberg eagle on each lateral column, framed top and bottom by the inscription 'NOTGELD DER STADT NÜRNBERG' in bold letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain cream-coloured paper surface with no text, vignette, or ornamental elements, consistent with the utilitarian production standards typical of German municipal Notgeld of the 1923 hyperinflationary period. |
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Nuremberg's municipal treasury issued its own emergency currency throughout the hyperinflation crisis of 1923, a period when the Reichsbank could not physically print and distribute notes fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. By the time denominations reached seven figures, a single tram fare or loaf of bread could consume notes that would have represented years of wages just eighteen months earlier. The Stadtkasse operated alongside dozens of other German municipal and commercial issuers producing Notgeld — a parallel paper economy born of institutional failure.
E. Nister was an established Nuremberg printer with a commercial book and chromolithography background, which shows in the relatively refined production quality compared to some hastily printed municipal issues of the same period.