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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (Finanzdeputation) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | Verlagsgesellschaft Deutscher Konsumvereine m.b.H., Hamburg, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Pink and green Notgeld emergency note printed on plain paper, with a wavy-line guilloche underprint across the entire field. At left, a circular vignette bears the Hamburg city arms — a white castle on a red field — surrounded by the legend MARK within an ornate border. The denomination EINE MILLION MARK is set in large Gothic blackletter script at centre, below the issuing authority inscription in Fraktur. Date of issue, Hamburg den 10. August 1923, and two manuscript signatures appear in the lower half, flanked by the titles Die Finanzdeputation and Die Hauptstaatskasse, with a circular official seal between them; the printer's imprint runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Aushilfsschein der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg EINE MILLION MARK Dieser Aushilfsschein wird von allen hamburgischen staatlichen Kassen und den Banken in Hamburg in Zahlung genommen. Hamburg, den 10. August 1923. Die Finanzdeputation: Die Hauptstaatskasse: VERLAGSGESELLSCHAFT DEUTSCHER KONSUMVEREINE M.B.H HAMBURG, 5. |
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Hamburg's Finanzdeputation — the city-state's financial administration — issued this million-mark note at the height of the hyperinflation spiral in 1923, when the Reichsbank could no longer supply sufficient emergency currency to keep commerce functioning. Dozens of German municipalities and private entities printed their own Notgeld, and Hamburg's notes were among the more institutionally serious, backed by the authority of a functioning city-state government rather than a factory or savings club.
The printer, Verlagsgesellschaft Deutscher Konsumvereine, was the publishing arm of the German consumer cooperative movement — an unusual choice that reflects how conventional print capacity was overwhelmed by demand during those months.