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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Glauchau |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided Notgeld printed in teal-blue on white paper, enclosed within a fine guilloche border with ornamental corner rosettes. At left, a letterpress vignette illustrates Schloss Forderglauchau, the medieval hilltop castle of Glauchau, rendered in detailed line engraving with surrounding foliage. The denomination "Eine Million Mark" is set in large Gothic blackletter type at centre, with the serial number and issuing authority legend above, and two manuscript facsimile signatures below their respective titles "Amtshauptmann" and "Kassenvorstand", accompanied by the issue date 18. September 1923. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing plain white paper through which the obverse letterpress impression is clearly visible as a mirror-image show-through, confirming the single-sided printing of this Notgeld issue. |
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German district-level notgeld at its most extreme: the Amtshauptmannschaft Glauchau was a Saxon administrative district, and like hundreds of similar bodies across Germany in 1923, it was legally permitted — indeed effectively compelled — to issue its own emergency currency as hyperinflation made Reichsbank supply chronically inadequate. The Rats-Druckerei was Glauchau's municipal print shop, meaning this note was produced entirely within the district it was meant to serve, from authorization through to press.
One million marks sounds extraordinary, but by mid-1923 it was grocery-run money. Notes like this were typically obsolete within weeks of printing.