1 000 000 Mark

Emittent	Kreis Hofgeismar (District of Hofgeismar)
Jahr	1923
Typ	Local banknote
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Vorderseitenbeschreibung	Orange and brown Notgeld note printed on plain paper, with a bold diamond-pattern border framing the entire face. A large guilloche-style oval vignette occupies the centre, enclosing the numeral '1,000,000' in heavy block lettering; the denomination text 'Gut für Eine Million Mark' arches above in Gothic script. The issuing authority 'Kreis Hofgeismar' appears at the top, with serial letter 'Buchstabe C' at upper left, a hand-stamped serial number at upper right, and redemption instructions ('Einzulösen bei der Kreissparkasse Hofgeismar') flanking the central vignette on both sides; the date '11. Aug. 1923' and the committee designation 'Der Kreisausschuß' with manuscript signatures appear at the foot.
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Anmerkungen	Kreis Hofgeismar was one of hundreds of German municipal and district authorities that printed their own emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank's output could not keep pace with the collapsing purchasing power of the mark. By the time a one-million-mark denomination was necessary, inflation was still accelerating — notes of this face value were themselves obsolete within weeks of issue, superseded by billion- and trillion-mark pieces before the Rentenmark stabilization in November 1923. The blind stamp is the only security measure — a deliberate economy, given that counterfeiting notgeld of this period was barely worth the effort.