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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Kelheim |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Stadtsparkasse Kelheim wolle zahlen gegen diesen Scheck aus meinem/unserem Guthaben an Inhaber oder Ueberbringer Mark Eine Million Kelheim, den 30. Juli 1923 U. Bürgermeister Stadtsparkassa: Nur zur Verrechnung |
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| Reverse lettering | Dieser Scheck wird nach Feststellung der Ordnungsmäßigkeit, die in der Regel 3-4 Tage erfordert, kostenfrei eingelöst: 1. Bei der Bayer. Girozentrale München. 2. Bei der Bayer. Girozentrale Nürnberg. 3. Bei allen übrigen deutschen Sparkassen-Girozentralen und den diesen angeschlossenen öffentlichen Sparkassen. |
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Kelheim's municipal savings bank joined the flood of German Notgeld issuers during the hyperinflation peak of 1923, when the Reichsbank's own presses could not keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. By August of that year, a single US dollar was worth several million Marks, which rendered even this million-Mark denomination effectively small change within weeks of issue.
Local Sparkassen across Bavaria issued their own emergency paper largely because the national supply chain for currency had broken down entirely. Kelheim was a minor issuer — surviving examples are scarce not because of intentional withdrawal, but simply because small-town runs were short.