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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreiskommunalkasse des Dillkreises zu Dillenburg |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned Kreisnotgeld (district emergency note) with an elaborate concentric guilloche oval underprint filling the centre. The denomination EINE MILLION MARK is printed in large bold Gothic lettering across the middle, surmounted by the title Kreisnotgeld in blackletter script. A circular official seal of the Kreisausschuss des Dillkreises zu Dillenburg with an eagle motif is impressed at lower left, accompanied by a block of text authorising redemption at the Kreiskommunalkasse, dated Dillenburg, den 16. August 1923, and bearing multiple manuscript signatures of the Vorsitzender and Kreisausschussmitglieder. Series letter and serial number appear in the lower corners. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central vignette set within a Gothic arch frame, reproducing a historical painting of Wilhelm von Oranien (William of Orange) receiving the Dutch envoys beneath the Wilhelmslinde in 1568. The arched vignette is flanked on both sides by vertical ornamental panels with repetitive guilloche rosette and interlace motifs, and the denomination 1.000.000 is printed diagonally in large outlined numerals on each lateral border. A decorative heraldic cartouche appears at the base of the arch, and the printer's imprint BECK / HERBORN is present at lower right. |
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The Dillkreis was a rural administrative district in Nassau-Dillenburg, and like hundreds of similar German county treasuries in 1923, its Kreiskommunalkasse was forced into the absurd position of issuing emergency currency simply to meet payroll. The Beck'sche Druckerei in nearby Herborn — a regional commercial printer with no particular currency background — handled the job with whatever stock and typesetting capacity it had available at the time.
By the time million-mark denominations were being printed by local county offices, the Reichsbank's own supply chain had collapsed under the volume demands of hyperinflation. This note existed for days, possibly hours, before its face value became economically meaningless.