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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Gewerbebanken in Balingen, Ebingen und Tailfingen and Oberamtssparkasse Balingen |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Mk. 1,000.000.- Eine Million Mark in deutscher Reichswährung vergüten die unterzeichneten Banken dem Vorzeiger dieser Anweisung Ebingen, den 13. August 1923. Die Gewerbebanken in Balingen Ebingen Tailfingen Die Oberamtssparkasse Balingen mit Zweigstellen in Ebingen & Tailfingen Es wird gebeten, während der Zeit der Geldknappheit diese Anweisung in Zahlung zu nehmen. Gültig bis 30. September 1923 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain cream-coloured paper surface with no design elements, text, or ornamentation, the show-through of the obverse diagonal blue stripe underprint faintly visible at the lateral edges. |
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Three institutions — the Gewerbebanken in Balingen, Ebingen, and Tailfingen, together with the Oberamtssparkasse Balingen — jointly issued this emergency million-mark note during the catastrophic hyperinflation of 1923, when municipal and regional bodies across Germany were authorized to produce Notgeld to keep local commerce moving. By mid-1923, the Reichsbank's own printing infrastructure simply could not produce currency fast enough to meet demand.
The collaboration between three commercial banks and a district savings institution on a single note is unusual even within the chaotic Notgeld output of that period. Joint-issue pieces from this corner of Baden-Württemberg are underrepresented in major collections.