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| Issuer | Stadt Bocholt (City of Bocholt), Westphalia |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 1 000 000 Mark (1 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Bocholt i. W. EINE MILLION MARK Dieser Schein wird von allen städtischen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in den Ortszeitungen Bocholt i. W., den 17. August 1923. Der Oberbürgermeister: |
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| Reverse lettering | EINE MILLION MARK EINE MILLION MARK 1000000 Buchdruckerei Josef Neyenhaus, Bocholt |
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Bocholt's million-mark note is a product of the Papiermark's terminal collapse in mid-1923, when municipal and commercial entities across Germany were legally permitted — effectively required — to print their own emergency currency because Reichsbank supply could not keep pace with hyperinflation. Josef Neyenhaus was a local print shop, not a security printer; the note was produced on whatever stock was available, which accounts for the variable paper quality seen across surviving examples.
Westphalian Notgeld at this denomination was typically in circulation for days, sometimes hours, before becoming worthless.