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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Sparkasse der Stadt Freienwalde a.O. (Rathaus) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on thin smooth white paper in light green with black letterpress text. The denomination and value are applied by manual violet rubber stamp, and a circular violet ink official seal is struck at the lower centre. The month and day are hand-inscribed in manuscript, and a four-digit serial number appears in black at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Sauber halten!-Bor.und Rückseite nicht beschreiben oder Stempeln! Konto Nr 2389 Mk Die Sparkasse der Stadt Freienwalde a.O (Rathaus) Zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus unserem Guthaben an den Überbringer Mark EINE MILLION Freienwalde a.O den 17.1 1923 Die Statdhauptkasse |
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Freienwalde an der Oder was a small spa town in Brandenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1923, its savings bank — operating out of the town hall — was forced into emergency currency issuance as Reichsbank notes became worthless faster than they could be printed. These Notgeld issues at the million-mark level reflect the peak inflationary spiral of mid-1923, when the mark's collapse was measured in days, not months.
The watermarked paper is notable for a local issue of this type — many comparable municipal Notgeld from the same period used plain stock. Whether this reflects a specific paper supplier relationship or a deliberate attempt at rudimentary security is unrecorded.