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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Haßloch (Pfalz) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld printed in dark blue and ochre-yellow on plain paper, with the issuer's title in Gothic blackletter script across the top. A central yellow underprint vignette of winged allegorical figures flanking cornucopiae and wheat sheaves frames the large denomination legend "Eine Million Mark" in bold Gothic type. A dotted-border text panel carries the guarantee clause, below which the date "Haßloch, den 25. August 1923" and the numeral "1000000" are printed in ochre, with spaces for the Gemeinde-Einnehmer and 1. Bürgermeister signatures at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Haßloch (Pfalz) Kontroll-Zeichen: B-D * Eine Million Mark Für diesen Gutschein haftet das gesamte Vermögen der Gemeinde Haßloch. Er wird von sämtlichen öffentlichen Kassen in Haßloch in Zahlung genommen. Er wird ungültig, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung bei der Sparkasse Haßloch eingelöst wird. Haßloch, den 25. August 1923. * 1000000 * (Siegel) Gemeinde-Einnehmer. 1. Bürgermeister. |
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Haßloch was a small Palatinate municipality, and like hundreds of German towns in 1923, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to fill the vacuum left by the Reichsbank's catastrophic inability to supply sufficient physical notes during hyperinflation. By August 1923, a million marks would not have bought a loaf of bread for long; denominations like this became obsolete within weeks of printing, sometimes days.
Local Notgeld from villages this size was typically printed in short runs by regional jobbing printers, often on whatever stock was available. Survival rates vary wildly — some issues were largely unspent and kept as curiosities, others circulated hard before the Rentenmark stabilization in November 1923 rendered them all worthless.