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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Baden-Baden (City of Baden-Baden) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 1 000 000 Mark (1 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed in dark red and violet, with the circular violet municipal seal of Baden-Baden at upper left bearing the city arms. The denomination is set in large Gothic blackletter script across the centre, flanked above by the issuer legend and the date line, with a serial number in red at upper right. A small block of redemption text in German occupies the lower left, and two manuscript signature spaces are provided for the Oberbürgermeister and the Stadtkassedirektor respectively. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1000 000 Mk. |
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Baden-Baden issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — like hundreds of other German municipalities scrambling to fill the void left by hyperinflation that had rendered Reichsbank notes functionally worthless before they could even be spent. By mid-1923, the inflation was moving so fast that local authorities were printing million-mark denominations not as extraordinary measures but as routine payroll instruments.
The DeNG reference places this within a well-documented but sprawling series; the "d" suffix indicates a specific paper or print variant within the type. Baden-Baden's municipal issues from this period are generally less sought after than the more artistically ambitious Notgeld produced in the inflationary wave of 1921–22 — this is utility printing, not collector bait.