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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Amtskörperschaft Ravensburg |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Uniface notgeld note printed in dark brown on cream-yellow paper, enclosed within a fine dotted rectangular border. The denomination numeral '1000000' appears in all four corners, with a serial number in blue-green ink at top centre. The central text in Fraktur script announces the promise to pay, with the large Gothic display lettering 'Eine Million Mark' dominating the middle field above the issue date 'Ravensburg, 18. August 1923'. A faint watermark-style underprint of a circular vignette is visible in the centre, below which the issuing authority and two manuscript signatures appear over their respective title lines. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1000000 Nº 1000000 Die Amtskörperschaft Ravensburg zahlt dem Einlieferer dieser Note Eine Million Mark Ravensburg, 18. August 1923 Amtskörperschaft Ravensburg i.V. Regierungsrat Oberamtspfleger 1000000 1000000 |
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Ravensburg's one-million Mark note was issued during the hyperinflationary peak of summer 1923, when German municipal and district authorities — Amtskörperschaften — were legally empowered to issue emergency currency, or Notgeld, to compensate for the Reich's inability to supply sufficient legal tender. Ravensburg, a mid-sized Württemberg administrative district, printed this denomination locally as a stop-gap measure, with face value rendered obsolete within weeks of issue by continued currency collapse.
By November 1923, a one-million Mark note would not have bought a tram ticket.