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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Plauen (City of Plauen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| In circulation to | 1923 |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein Gültig nur im Bezirke der Stadt-Plauen i. V. und des Bezirksverbandes der Amtshauptmannschaft Plauen i. V. während der in deren Amtsblättern bekannt gegebenen Laufzeit. Fünf Millionen Mark zahlen die städtischen Kassen zu Plauen i. D., Reichenbach, Mylau und Netzschkau und die Kasse des Bezirksverbandes der Amtshauptmannschaft Plauen i. V. gegen Rückgabe dieses Gutscheins innerhalb der bekannt gegebenen Laufzeit. Plauen, den 20. August 1923. Der Rat der Stadt Plauen Oberbürgermeister Stadtkämmerer Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Plauen Amtshauptmann |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Plauen's municipal emergency currency from 1923 sits squarely within the Weimar hyperinflation peak, when local authorities across Germany were legally empowered — and practically forced — to issue their own Notgeld to keep commerce functioning as Reichsbank notes became worthless faster than they could be printed. By the time denominations reached seven figures, the five-million mark barely covered a loaf of bread.
The watermarked paper is notable for a local issue of this type — many Saxony municipal notes at this denomination level dispensed with security features entirely, treating the notes as effectively disposable given their near-instant obsolescence.