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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreis Monschau (District of Monschau) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 145 × 87 mm |
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| Protection type | Official seal |
| Protection description | Embossed oval official seal of the Kreis Monschau applied to the reverse. |
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Monschau is a small district in the Eifel region near the Belgian border, and its 1923 million-mark note is a product of the Weimar hyperinflation's most acute phase — the summer and autumn when municipal and district authorities across Germany scrambled to issue Notgeld simply to keep workers paid in denominations that still bought anything. By August 1923, a single note of this face value was worth what the entire prewar German money supply could not cover.
The Merkelbach reference places this in a well-documented but often locally-printed category of district emergency currency. Authentication rests almost entirely on the official seal, which varies in impression quality across surviving examples.