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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Amtskörperschaft Saulgau |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured note of simple typographic design, printed in black with red decorative border rules running along all four edges and red horizontal dash ornaments at the lateral margins. The denomination "Eine Million Mark" is set in large, elaborate copperplate-style script at the centre, underlined by a bold red rule. The issuer's name and payment promise appear in cursive script above, the place and date "Saulgau, 27. August 1923" below, flanked at lower left by a circular official stamp of the Oberamtspflege Saulgau bearing the Württemberg coat of arms. Two manuscript signatures appear at lower centre-right under the designations "Regierungsrat" and "Oberamtspfleger", with the serial number prefixed "No" typeset at the top centre and the denomination repeated in each corner. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, showing the plain unadorned paper stock in a uniform pale buff tone with visible fold lines and the natural texture of the paper substrate. No text, vignette, or ornamental element of any kind appears on this face. |
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Saulgau was a small administrative district in Württemberg, and like hundreds of similar local authorities across Germany in 1923, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — when the Reichsbank simply could not print fast enough to keep up with hyperinflation. By the time million-mark denominations were necessary for routine transactions, the currency was collapsing faster than any central authority could manage distribution. Local bodies stepped in by legal necessity, not ambition.
Württemberg Notgeld from this period was often printed regionally rather than in Berlin, with smaller municipal issuers frequently reusing typography layouts across denominations to cut time and cost.