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5 000 000 Mark Baienfurt, Metall- und Eisengießerei Meteor
| Issuer | Metall- und Eisengießerei Meteor, Baienfurt |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 5 000 000 Mark (5 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note on buff paper with serial number box upper left and denomination M. 5000000.- upper right. Text body orders Gewerbebank Weingarten E.G.m.b.H. to pay five million Mark to the bearer, dated Baienfurt 29 Sept. 1923, with issuer signature below. |
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| Obverse lettering | No. 1312 M. 5000000.- Die Gewerbebank Weingarten E. G. m. b. H. wolle zahlen gegen diesen Scheck aus dem Guthaben an den Ueberbringer - Fünf Millionen Mark - Baienfurt, den 29. Sept. 1923 Metall- und Eisengießerei „METEOR”. |
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Baienfurt is a small industrial commune near Ravensburg in Württemberg, and Meteor's foundry notgeld was issued at a moment when the Reichsbank's own printing presses had fallen so far behind hyperinflation that private industrial employers were legally permitted — in fact, practically compelled — to issue their own emergency wages currency. A 5,000,000 Mark denomination that would have been worth roughly the price of a newspaper at the end of September 1923.
The 29 September printing date places this note just weeks before the Rentenmark stabilization effectively ended the notgeld period. Late-issue industrial pieces from small Württemberg firms were frequently printed in very short runs and redeemed quickly, which keeps survivor populations thin.