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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtrat Dillingen an der Donau (City Council of Dillingen an der Donau, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The entire reverse is occupied by a large rose-pink letterpress vignette reproducing an 18th-century engraving captioned "Mißpergniüa Schlitata". The scene, rendered in fine crosshatched line work, shows a crowded winter village setting with soldiers, horses, and civilians gathered before timber-framed buildings, evoking a historical military transport episode in the region of Otterzell. A three-line descriptive caption in period German script runs along the lower edge of the vignette, identifying the scene as the transport of a Bavarian poacher by Wildbrät-Schützen following an order by Premier-Lieutenant Schedel in 1771. |
| Reverse lettering | Mißpergniüa Schlitata Oder Transport des Bayrischen Diefsls samt seinen Cameraden von Wildbrät-Schüzen, nach der Belingennehmung von dem Hoch Fürstl. Millauischen Herrn Premier-Lieutenant Schedel dients lau 1771 nebst dem wahren Prospect des Wirtshauses und Gegend des Dorts Otterzell |
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Dillingen an der Donau was among hundreds of German municipalities forced to print their own emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank could not produce legal tender fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. The million-mark denomination, which would have been an unthinkable figure just two years earlier, was already struggling to cover basic transactions by the time this note reached circulation. Veduka-Drucke, a local print shop, handled production in-house — a telling detail about how far monetary authority had fragmented by mid-1923.