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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Nürnberg (City of Nuremberg) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 1 000 000 Mark (1 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADT 1000000 Eine Million Mark zahlt die Stadthaupt-Kasse Nürnberg für diesen Schein NÜRNBERG 11 AUGUST 1923 EINE MILLION N·Ü·R·N·B·E·R·G E. NISTER NÜRNBERG |
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| Reverse lettering | EINE MILLION EINE MILLION MARK EINE MILLION KÖRNER |
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Nürnberg issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — because the Reichsbank simply could not print fast enough during the hyperinflation of 1923. By the time a one-million Mark note reached circulation, that denomination represented an almost trivial sum; the presses at E. Nister, a well-established Nuremberg printing firm better known for illustrated books and chromolithography, were being repurposed for financial triage rather than commerce.
The Körner engraver credit places this within a identifiable production sequence for the city's later high-denomination issues. The 3970b suffix in the DeNG reference indicates a recognized variety distinction — likely a color, paper, or serial format difference from 3970a — worth confirming against the Grabowski-Mehl catalog directly.