1 000 000 Mark

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.