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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Siegen (City of Siegen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 1 000 000 Mark (1 000 000) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black on a matching guilloche underprint of repeating lozenge rosettes within a plain rectangular frame. A central vignette shows a standing armoured figure, likely a knight or civic allegory, set upon a pedestal. The denomination "1 000 000" appears in large bold numerals at each of the four diagonal corners in a curved arrangement, with a "Nummer" label at centre left and the serial number box at centre right; the printer's imprint "Buchdruckerei W. Vorländer, Siegen" runs along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 1000 000 Nummer Buchdruckerei W. Vorländer, Siegen |
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Siegen's million-mark notgeld belongs to the hyperinflation peak of summer 1923, when municipal and commercial issuers across Germany scrambled to print emergency denominations fast enough to keep pace with the collapsing reichsmark. Stadt Siegen contracted the local printer W. Vorländer — a practical decision; shipping notes from a distant press introduced delays that could render an entire print run worthless before distribution.
The denomination itself tells the story. Germany had circulated 1-mark notes in 1914. Nine years later, a million marks was bus fare.