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5 000 000 Mark Oberamt Leutkirch
| Issuer | Amtskörperschaft Leutkirch (Oberamtssparkasse Leutkirch) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in ochre and dark brown on cream paper, the obverse carries a landscape vignette in the upper portion showing a traditional half-timbered Swabian farmhouse set against an Alpine mountain backdrop with conifers, rendered in a fine line-art style. A decorative border of stylised foliate and flame motifs frames the entire note, with the numeral "5000000" repeated vertically in the left and right margins. The centre field bears the denomination "Fünf Millionen Mark" in bold Fraktur script beneath the heading "Kassenschein", with a payment clause referencing the Oberamtssparkasse Leutkirch dated 20 August 1923, three manuscript signatures below, and a serial number in a cartouche at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and plain, showing only the show-through impression of the obverse design visible through the thin paper stock, with no intentional printed design elements. |
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Leutkirch im Allgäu was a small Württemberg market town, and its Oberamtssparkasse — the district savings office — was among hundreds of municipal and regional bodies that were forced to print their own emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923. The 5,000,000 Mark denomination places this note squarely in the summer-to-autumn acceleration phase, when the Reichsbank's own output could not keep pace with collapsing purchasing power and local authorities were legally permitted to issue Notgeld to cover wages and basic commerce.
The watermarked paper is notable for a note of this type — most Württemberg district Notgeld of this period used plain stock, and the presence of a security substrate suggests the printer had access to better-quality paper supplies than many comparable issuers.