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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt- und Landkreis Aachen |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | La Ruelle'sche Accidenzdruckerei (Inh. Jos. Deterre & Sohn), Aachen, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt- und Landkreis Aachen. Gutschein über Eine Million Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von allen öffentlichen Kassen des Stadt- und Landkreises Aachen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit vier Wochen nach Aufruf durch die öffentlichen Blätter des Stadt- und Landkreises Aachen. Aachen, den 20. Juli 1923. Der Oberbürgermeister. Der Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses. |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in golden-tan on cream paper, the reverse presents a dense, uniform guilloche underprint composed of repeating spiral and interlocking scroll motifs arranged in a grid pattern across the entire surface, enclosed by a fine scalloped outer border. A plain rectangular cartouche at centre bears the large numerals '1000000' in outlined figures against the guilloche ground. No additional text or vignette appears on this side. |
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Aachen's million-mark note dates from the summer of 1923, when German municipal and regional authorities were legally empowered — and practically forced — to print their own emergency currency, or Notgeld, as Reichsbank-issued paper became worthless faster than it could be distributed. The Stadt- und Landkreis Aachen was among hundreds of German administrative bodies issuing denominations that would have been unimaginable two years earlier.
La Ruelle'sche Accidenzdruckerei was a local commercial job printer, not a specialized security press. The use of such firms was unavoidable given the volume and velocity of hyperinflation printing demands in 1923.