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5 000 000 Mark Francke Werke
| Issuer | Francke Werke K.a.A., Bremen |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Light green note with a central guilloche underprint of diagonal line patterns. The upper portion bears the serial number at left and the denomination "Mk. 5000000" at upper right, with the issuing bank instruction text "DIE J.F. SCHRÖDER BANK K.a.A. BREMEN wird angewiesen, gegen diesen Schein im Wege der Bankverrechnung" in letterpress above the large Gothic script denomination "Fünf Millionen Mark" in the centre. Below, the place and handwritten date "Bremen, den 29. August 1923" appear alongside the issuer name "FRANCKE WERKE K.a.A." and three manuscript signatures of the Geschäftsinhaber; a pink overprint stamp reading "Nur mit Zustimmung Genossenschaft eingetragene Geschäftsinhaber Haftpflicht" is applied diagonally at right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Nr. 000221 Mk. 5000000 DIE J.F. SCHRÖDER BANK K.a.A. BREMEN wird angewiesen, gegen diesen Schein im Wege der Bankverrechnung Fünf Millionen Mark aus unserem Guthaben zu zahlen. BREMEN, den 29. August 1923 FRANCKE WERKE K.a.A. Die Geschäftsinhaber: Bremer Druckerei A.G. |
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Francke Werke was a Bremen-based engineering and machinery manufacturer that, like hundreds of German industrial firms in the summer and autumn of 1923, obtained emergency authorization to issue its own notgeld when Reichsbank currency became functionally worthless faster than it could be printed. These factory-issued notes — Betriebsnotgeld — were typically redeemable only at the issuing company's own cashier window, which made them instruments of wage payment rather than general-circulation money.
The Bremer Druckerei A.G. handled a substantial volume of local notgeld contracts during this period. Whether that printing relationship guaranteed timely delivery during a crisis when paper and ink supplies were themselves destabilized is another matter.