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10 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Danzig (City of Danzig) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 10 000 Marks (10 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeldschein der Stadtgemeinde Dänzig Zehntausend Mark deutsche Reichswährung Danzig, den 20. März 1923 Der Senat, Verwaltung der Stadtgemeinde Danzig |
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| Reverse lettering | Zehntausend Mark deutsche Reichswährung 10000 MARK Dieser Notgeldschein wird ungültig, wenn er nicht innerhalb zweier Wochen nach Aufforderung des Senats, Verwaltung der Stadtgemeinde Danzig, bei der städtischen Kämmereikasse Danzig eingelöst wird. |
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Danzig's status as a Free City under League of Nations protection from 1920 onward left it in a peculiar monetary position — formally outside both Germany and Poland, yet economically tethered to the collapsing German mark. By early 1923, hyperinflation was destroying purchasing power so rapidly that local authorities were forced to issue emergency municipal currency, or Notgeld, simply to keep commerce functioning. The Stadtgemeinde notes were not a central bank product; they were a city government papering over a crisis it had no real tools to stop.
The 10,000 Mark denomination, enormous by pre-war standards, was rendered nearly trivial within months of issue as German inflation peaked in late 1923.