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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Hardenberg-Neviges |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents the denomination and issuing authority text in a typeset letterpress layout, with the central declaration that the city of Hardenberg-Neviges will pay the bearer one million Mark at its cashiers' offices. A note regarding the redemption period and the authorization by the Reichsfinanzminister and the Prussian Minister of Trade frames the main text. The overall design is utilitarian in character, consistent with emergency currency (Notgeld) production of the hyperinflationary period. |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Einlösungsfrist wird öffentlich bekannt gemacht. Ausgegeben mit Genehmigung des Reichsfinanzministers und des preußischen Handelsministers Stadt Hardenberg – Neviges 1 000 000 Die Stadt Hardenberg Neviges zahlt bei ihren Kassen an den Vorzeiger eine Million Mark. |
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Hardenberg-Neviges was a small industrial town in the Bergisches Land region of western Germany, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1923, it was forced to print its own emergency currency as Reichsbank notes lost purchasing power faster than they could be distributed. These municipal million-mark issues — Notgeld in the inflation's most extreme phase — were often valid for only days before redenomination rendered them obsolete. A note issued in July could be worthless before August ended.
The sheer volume of Notgeld printed by minor authorities that summer means many types survived in quantity, but specific Hardenberg-Neviges issues remain thinly documented in major catalogs.