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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtrat Rosenheim (City Council of Rosenheim, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 175 × 116 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in purple on cream paper, the obverse is framed by a wavy-line guilloche border and centred on an ornate golden-yellow cartouche enclosing the city arms vignette, above which the denomination 'Eine Million Mark' is boldly inscribed. A Gothic-script panel at upper centre carries the title 'GUTSCHEIN', with the serial number positioned to its left and '1.000.000 Mk.' to its right. The lower portion bears the validity clause dated 'Rosenheim, 20. August 1923', a circular blind-stamp impression of the municipal seal at lower left, and two manuscript signatures for the Stadtrat and Kontrolle respectively. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in purple on plain paper, the reverse centres on a topographic vignette of the Rosenheim townscape, with the onion-domed towers of St. Nikolaus in the foreground and the Bavarian Alps receding into the background. Beneath the vignette, the issuer inscription 'Stadtrat Rosenheim' appears within a rectangular panel. Each side of the composition is flanked by a vertically-oriented guilloche medallion bearing the numeral '1000000'. |
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Rosenheim's million-mark note dates from August 1923, the peak of the Weimar hyperinflation, when municipal and regional authorities throughout Germany were issuing their own emergency currency — Notgeld — to compensate for the Reich's inability to supply legal tender in usable denominations fast enough. By mid-1923, a note worth a million marks was worth almost nothing within weeks of printing. Gebrüder Parcus of Munich was one of the more prolific Bavarian commercial printers handling these emergency contracts, producing issues for multiple municipalities across the region simultaneously.
The sheer volume of Notgeld printed in this period means survivors are common, but dated examples from specific issuing towns can still attract regional collector interest.