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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Chemnitz (District of Chemnitz-Land, Saxony) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 140 x 85 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue on pale rose paper, the obverse carries a decorative guilloche border with ornamental rosettes at each corner. The upper portion bears the title 'Gutschein' in bold letterpress with a handwritten serial number, followed by the issuing authority's name in Gothic script and the denomination 'Fünf Millionen Mark' in large blackletter type. At the lower centre, a detailed letterpress vignette presents a panoramic view of a multi-storey civic building set among trees, flanked on each side by the numeral '5000000 Mark'; two facsimile signatures appear above the vignette, identified by their printed titles as Amtshauptmann and Vors. d. Bezirkstags, with the date Chemnitz, 24. August 1923 inscribed centrally. |
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| Signature(s) | Jungnickel (Amtshauptmann) and Schneider (Vors. d. Bezirkstags) |
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During the hyperinflation of 1923, German regional and municipal authorities — Bezirksverbände, Landkreise, even individual firms — were legally authorized to issue emergency currency (Notgeld) when the Reichsbank simply could not produce denominations fast enough to keep pace with price collapse. The Amtshauptmannschaft Chemnitz-Land was a rural administrative district surrounding, but distinct from, the city of Chemnitz, and its note-issuing body required two signatories: the Amtshauptmann Jungnickel, the senior state-appointed official, and Schneider as chairman of the elected Bezirkstag.
Rats-Druckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau was a regional commercial printer, not a security press — which was entirely normal by mid-1923, when specialist banknote printers were overwhelmed with orders from hundreds of simultaneous issuers.