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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Landau in der Pfalz (City of Landau in der Pfalz) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark red on cream paper, the obverse is framed by a double-line letterpress border with fine wavy-rule ornamentation along all four edges. The denomination '1000000 Mark' is set in large Gothic script at centre, with the written legend 'Eine Million' immediately below; a vignette of the Landau city arms appears in the upper centre-right background as an underprint. The lower left carries an applied circular official stamp of the Stadtkasse, while the text body confirms payability by the Stadthauptkasse Landau, Pfalz, with the issue date 'Landau, den 1. August 1923' and the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature to the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Landau, Pfalz 1000000 Mark Eine Million zahlt die Stadthauptkasse Landau, Pfalz, dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines in deutscher Reichsmark. Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit spätestens am 1. Jan. 1924 oder auf früheren Aufruf. Der Bürgermeister: Landau, den 1. August 1923. |
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Landau in der Pfalz sits in territory that was under French military occupation in 1923, which makes this municipal Notgeld issue politically awkward — a German city administration printing its own emergency currency while nominally under Allied control during the Rhineland occupation. The city, like dozens of others in the Pfalz, had no practical alternative as Reichsbank notes became worthless faster than they could be shipped.
A million-mark denomination in mid-1923 bought roughly a loaf of bread, briefly.