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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Crimmitschau, City of |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 12#931d |
| Obverse description | Firm white paper with a steel-blue interior frame and an outer border printed in golden brown; the central letterpress text block is rendered in steel-blue with all inscriptions in black. The note bears the issuing authority text and validity clause within the framed area, with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Protection description | G-S-Muster (Keller#206) |
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Crimmitschau was a textile-industry town in Saxony that had made headlines two decades earlier during the 1903–04 weavers' strike — one of the longest industrial labor disputes in German history. By 1923, the same working population was dealing with a different catastrophe entirely. Municipalities across Germany were authorized to issue their own emergency currency, Notgeld, as the Reichsbank's output simply could not keep pace with hyperinflation's daily demands. A million marks sounds staggering; by mid-1923 it was bus fare.
The watermark security feature on municipal Notgeld of this period was not universal — many towns used plain stock — making its presence here a minor point of distinction within the series.