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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Dortmund (für die Stadt- und Landkreise Dortmund und Hörde) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| In circulation to | 1 February 1919 |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown on a rose-violet guilloche underprint and carries the denomination in bold Gothic blackletter script — 'Eine Million Mark' — occupying the upper central field. Two circular medallions on the left margin each bear the Dortmund civic eagle within a beaded border with the legend 'STADT DORTMUND'. The lower portion carries multi-line letterpress text in Fraktur script stating the issuing authority, legal basis, date of issue (Dortmund, 9. August 1923), and two manuscript signatures of the Magistrat officials, with the printer's imprint 'Entw. u. Druck: W. Crüwell, Dortmund' at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Eine Million Mark zahlen die städt. Kassen in Dortmund u. Hörde, sowie die Kreis-Stadt-Amts-Spar-u. Gemeindekassen in den Landkreisen Dortmund u. Hörde dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines. Ausgegeben mit Genehmigung des Reichsministers der Finanzen auf Grund des Reichsgesetzes vom 17. Juli 1922. (Reichsgesetzblatt vom 14. August 1922.) dieser Schein wird ungültig einen Monat nach öffentl. Aufruf. Dortmund am 9. August 1923 Für die Stadt-u. Landkreise Dortmund u. Hörde: Der Magistrat der Stadt Dortmund. STADT DORTMUND Entw. u. Druck: W. Crüwell, Dortmund |
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Dortmund's municipal authority issued this million-mark note during the Ruhr occupation crisis of 1923, when French and Belgian troops had effectively paralyzed the region's economy and the Reichsbank struggled to supply enough emergency currency to keep local commerce functioning. Municipal and district administrations across the Ruhr were authorized — or simply compelled by necessity — to print their own notgeld at denominations that would have been unimaginable two years earlier.
W. Crüwell was a Dortmund commercial printer, not a specialist security press. That origin is often visible in surviving examples through inconsistent ink density and relatively simple anti-counterfeiting measures.