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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Zirndorf (City of Zirndorf) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| In circulation to | 1923 |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper Notgeld issued by the City of Zirndorf, with the heading 'Notgeld der Stadt Zirndorf' in dark blue Gothic (Fraktur) letterpress at the top, above the denomination 'Eine Million Mark' rendered in large bold red Gothic type with the numeral '(1000000)' beneath. A red stamped serial number appears in the upper right corner, and three manuscript signatures are placed across the lower portion above the printer's imprint. The text is entirely typographic with no pictorial vignette or ornamental border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing only the blind offset impression of the obverse text visible through the thin paper stock, with no additional design, text, or security elements applied. |
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Zirndorf is a small Bavarian town best known, if at all, for its toy industry — not for monetary policy. But in the summer and autumn of 1923, as the Reichsmark collapsed under hyperinflation, hundreds of German municipalities were legally permitted to issue their own emergency currency, Notgeld, to meet immediate payroll and commercial needs. The Reichsbank simply could not print fast enough. Local printers, Bollmann among them, were pressed into service producing denominations that would have been unthinkable eighteen months earlier.
A million marks. Spent on bread, probably, within days of issue.