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5 000 000 Mark Brückenbau Flender
| Issuer | Brückenbau Flender A.-G. Lübeck |
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| Value | 5 000 000 Marks (5 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | 5000000 Die Kasse der Brückenbau Flender A.-G. Lübeck zahlt FÜNF MILLIONEN MARK an Überbringer gegen Einreichung dieses Gutscheines. Brückenbau Flender Act.-Ges. Schiffs- u. Dockbauwerft Lübeck-Siems Max Schmidt Lübeck |
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| Protection description | White crosses / Helle Kreuze |
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Brückenbau Flender A.-G. was a Lübeck-based steel construction firm — bridge-builders, not bankers — that found itself issuing emergency currency during the catastrophic inflation of 1923. At the five-million mark denomination, this note was already obsolescent within days of printing; the Reichsmark reform in November 1923 rendered the entire notgeld system worthless overnight. Max Schmidt was a local Lübeck printer with no particular prestige in the notgeld world, which makes the inclusion of a watermark here a minor surprise — most industrial-issuer emergency notes of this period dispensed with security features entirely.