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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde München (City of Munich) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 1 000 000 Mark (1 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | STADTGEMEINDE MÜNCHEN Eine Million Mark MÜNCHEN, DEN 14. AUGUST 1923 STADTRAT MÜNCHEN 1 Million |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt München 1000000 Mark Mark Wer Banknoten nachmacht oder verfälscht, oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter zwei Jahren bestraft. Das Ende der Laufzeit dieses Gutscheines wird durch Ausschreibung in den Tagesblättern öffentlich bekanntgemacht. |
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Munich's city administration began issuing notgeld in 1923 not from any banking ambition but out of sheer necessity — the Reichsbank could not print fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation, forcing municipalities across Germany to produce their own emergency currency. The million-mark denomination, unthinkable just months earlier, had become ordinary spending money by mid-1923; a single tram fare or loaf of bread could require notes of this face value.
Stadtgemeinde München was among the larger civic issuers, with tighter oversight than many rural Gemeinden whose notgeld was often purely speculative. The Hitler Putsch of November 1923 — launched and crushed within Munich itself — occurred just as this denomination was circulating, a detail that gives the note an involuntary footnote in the city's political history.