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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (Finanzdeputation) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 10#HAM.21 |
| Obverse description | Green and black letterpress Aushilfsschein (emergency auxiliary note) on plain paper, with the denomination 'Fünf Millionen Mark' rendered in large Gothic Fraktur script across the centre, above a green vignette of the Hamburg coat of arms flanked by guilloche underprint bands. The heading 'Aushilfsschein der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg' appears at top in Fraktur lettering, with a red serial number and letter prefix at upper right, and a vertical serial number along the right margin. At the foot, two manuscript signatures appear beneath the printed legends 'Die Finanzdeputation:' and 'Die Hauptstaatskasse:', flanking a circular impressed stamp of the Finanzdeputation Hamburg. |
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| Obverse lettering | Aushilfsschein Der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg Fünf Millionen Mark Dieser Aushilfsschein wird von allen hamburgischen staatlichen Kassen und den Banken in Hamburg in Zahlung genommen. Hamburg, den 11. August 1923. Die Finanzdeputation: Die Hauptstaatskasse: BROSCHEKA & CO. HAMBURG. |
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Hamburg's Finanzdeputation issued this note during the hyperinflation peak of 1923, when municipal and regional authorities across Germany were forced to print their own emergency currency — Notgeld — because the Reichsbank simply could not produce denominations fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. By the time five-million-mark notes were entering circulation, the figure was already near-obsolete within weeks of printing.
Broscheka & Co. was a Hamburg commercial printer, not a specialist security press. At this denomination level, production speed mattered far more than anti-counterfeiting sophistication — a forger would have struggled to spend fakes before the notes lost value anyway.