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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Districts of Bonn-Stadt, Bonn-Land and Siegkreis |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | REIHE B Gutschein über Eine Million Mark gedeckt durch Hinterlegung von Reichsschaßanweisungen. Er wird von den kommunalen Kassen und Sparkassen sowie den Banken der Kreise Bonn-Stadt, Bonn-Land und des Siegkreises in Zahlung genommen. Der Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit mit Ablauf von 2 Wochen nach Aufruf in den Tageszeitungen der genannten Bezirke. Bonn, den 10. August 1923. Der Oberbürgermeister I. V. Die Handelskammer Bonn RHENANIA-DRUCKEREI, BONN |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central circular vignette reproducing the medieval seal of the town of Bonn, rendered in fine letterpress. A haloed saint in episcopal robes stands at centre holding a staff and model of a church, set against a stylised Romanesque cityscape of towers and gabled buildings. The seal's Latin legend runs around the inner border of the circle. To the left and right of the central vignette, vertical blackletter inscriptions read 'Eine Million Mark', printed in opposite orientations to fill the lateral margins of the otherwise plain cream paper. |
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One of thousands of Notgeld issues that flooded the Rhineland during the hyperinflation peak of 1923, this note was produced locally by Rhenania-Druckerei to meet the catastrophic shortfall in usable currency as the Reichsmark collapsed in real time. The combined issue for the three districts ran to over twelve million pieces — a figure that sounds enormous until you recall that a single loaf of bread could cost hundreds of thousands of marks by mid-year, and billions by November.
The joint authorization across Bonn-Stadt, Bonn-Land, and Siegkreis was a practical administrative solution, not unusual for the period, allowing printing costs and distribution to be shared across municipal boundaries.