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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Beuel (Municipality of Beuel) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 1 000 000 Mark (1 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | The left third of the note is occupied by a letterpress vignette of the local folk figure 'Dat Beuele Brückemannche', a stone gargoyle-like figure clinging to a bridge support, with a caption banner beneath reading 'DIE ZEIT KANN MICH / DAT BEUELE BRÜCKEMANNCHE'. To the right, the denomination 'EINE MILLION MARK' is set in large gothic script in dark red above three lines of Fraktur legal text affirming the note's acceptance at all public offices and the municipality's redemption guarantee. The lower portion carries the date 'Beuel, den 15. August 1923', a circular official municipality stamp bearing an eagle, and a manuscript signature beneath the title 'Der Bürgermeister', with the printer's imprint 'RHENANIA-DRUCKEREI, BONN' at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über EINE MILLION MARK Dieser Gutschein wird von allen öffentlichen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in den Beueler und Bonner Ortsblättern. Die Gemeinde Beuel haftet für die Einlösung. Beuel, den 15. August 1923. Der Bürgermeister: »DIE ZEIT KANN MICH« DAT BEUELE BRÜCKEMANNCHE RHENANIA-DRUCKEREI, BONN |
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Beuel was a small industrial town on the right bank of the Rhine, directly across from Bonn, and in the summer of 1923 its municipal government was issuing emergency currency — Notgeld — simply to meet payroll. The Reichsbank could not supply enough official notes fast enough as hyperinflation compressed the real value of any given denomination to near-zero within days of printing. A million marks, at the moment this note circulated, would not reliably buy a newspaper.
The Rhenania-Druckerei in Bonn handled a significant volume of municipal Notgeld commissions from the surrounding Rhineland communities during this period, working under considerable time pressure.