1 000 000 Mark

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.