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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Pforzheim (City Treasury of Pforzheim, Baden) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on pink paper with a dark green letterpress geometric border composed of interlocking diamond and circle motifs running around the entire perimeter. A dashed-line diamond-shaped inner frame encloses the central text field, with the denomination "Fünf Millionen Mark" in large bold type at centre. The upper-left quadrant carries a redemption clause in small type, while the upper-right bears the numeric value "Mk. 5.000.000" and series letter "F"; an embossed municipal dry seal is applied at lower left, and the signature of the Oberbürgermeister appears at lower right above the place and date "PFORZHEIM, 20. August 1923". |
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| Protection description | Blind embossed municipal dry seal of the City of Pforzheim applied to the lower-left area of the obverse. |
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Pforzheim's city treasury issued this note in 1923 at the height of the German hyperinflationary collapse, when municipal and commercial authorities across the Reich were authorized to produce emergency currency — Notgeld — to compensate for the central bank's inability to supply denominations fast enough to meet daily wage demands. By August of that year, workers were being paid twice daily, since money lost meaningful value between morning and afternoon.
The embossed seal was the issuing authority's primary authentication device, a method that required no specialized printing infrastructure and could be applied locally — practical for a mid-sized Baden municipality with no dedicated security press.