1 000 000 Mark

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.