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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Pirmasens (City of Pirmasens) |
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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 Stadtgemeinde Pirmasens. Reihe W Eine Million Mark Pirmasens, 12. September 1923 Das Bürgermeisteramt. |
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| Reverse lettering | Der Zeitpunkt der Einlösung wird öffentlich bekannt gemacht. Eine Million Mark Wer Gutscheine nachmacht oder verfälscht oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in den Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter zwei Jahren bestraft. |
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Pirmasens was a shoe-manufacturing hub in the Palatinate, and its municipal notgeld issues from the 1923 hyperinflation reflect both the speed of monetary collapse and the logistical chaos that forced individual cities to print their own emergency currency. By the time million-mark denominations were necessary, the Reichsbank's supply of official notes could not keep pace with demand — municipalities, districts, and private firms across Germany issued their own Notgeld simply to make payroll.
Local printing on whatever stock was available means paper quality and ink consistency vary considerably across surviving examples from this series.