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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Altstadt |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed in black letterpress, enclosed within a decorative chain-link border. The denomination "EINE MILLION" is set in large Gothic blackletter type at centre, flanked above by the issuer title "Gutschein d. Bezirksverbandes d. Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Altstadt" and below by a redemption clause and the place-and-date line "Dresden-Altstadt, 14. August 1923". Two manuscript signatures appear at lower left and lower right, with their respective titles "Amtshauptmann" and "Kasseninspektor" printed beneath them, and a red serial number in prefix-letter format at centre bottom. |
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| Reverse lettering | MARK 1000000 Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit 1 Monat nachdem in den Amtsblättern d. Verfall dieses Gutscheins bekanntgegeben worden ist Wer Gutscheine nachmacht oder verfälscht, oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus bestraft Buchdruckerei der Dr. Güntz'schen Stiftung in Dresden |
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The Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Altstadt was one of hundreds of German district administrations forced into emergency currency printing during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank simply could not produce notes fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. A million marks — a sum that would have been unimaginable a decade earlier — was by mid-1923 barely enough for a loaf of bread, and within weeks of issue these notes were already obsolete on face value alone.
The Güntz'sche Stiftung was a Dresden charitable foundation with its own printing operation, an unusual institutional printer for notgeld of this denomination. Local authorities contracted whatever presses were available.