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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Norden (City of Norden) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 1 000 000 Mark (1 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Norden Eine Million Mark zahlt die Kämmereikasse dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines. Der Abruf unter Umtausch gegen andere gesetzliche Zahlungsmittel wird bekannt gegeben. Norden, den 18. August 1923. Der Magistrat Das Bürgervorsteherkollegium Siebolts, Norden |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing plain cream paper with show-through of the obverse text visible as a faint mirror impression across the surface. |
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Norden is a small coastal town in East Frisia, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1923, it was forced to print its own emergency currency — Notgeld — when the Reichsbank simply could not supply denominations fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation. By the time million-mark notes became necessary, the inflation had already consumed the entire pre-war monetary framework. A note of this face value, unthinkable eighteen months earlier, would within weeks be worth less than the paper it was printed on.
Printed locally by Siebold F. Siebolts, this is purely a functional issue — a town solving a logistics problem, not a decorative collector series.