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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Fürth i/B. (City Treasury of Fürth) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 5 000 000 Mark (5 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADT FÜRTH i/B. Fünf Millionen Mark zahlt die Stadtkasse Fürth i/B. gegen diesen Schein dem Einlieferer Fürth, den 15. September 1923. Stadtrat: Müller 3. Bürgermeister. Dreid [Oberbürgermeister] Oberbürgermeister. 2. Bürgermeister. 5 Millionen Mark |
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| Signature(s) | Müller (3. Bürgermeister), Dreid (Oberbürgermeister), and a third signatory (2. Bürgermeister) |
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Fürth's city treasury issued this note during the acute phase of Weimar hyperinflation, when municipal governments across Germany were authorized to produce their own emergency currency — Notgeld — to fill the void left by the Reichsbank's inability to print and distribute legal tender fast enough. Five million marks sounds extraordinary; by late 1923 it was pocket change. The Rentenmark reform in November of that year rendered the entire series worthless overnight.
Three separate signatories — the Oberbürgermeister and both deputy mayors — were required on each note, an administrative safeguard that did nothing to slow inflation but speaks to how seriously German municipal authorities treated even their most ephemeral paper obligations.