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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Tübingen, City of |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 12#5244b |
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| Obverse lettering | Universitasstadt Tubingen Stadtkassenschein. EINE MILLION MARK zahl die Stadtpflege Tubingen dem Einlieferer dieses Kassenscheins. Tubingen,den 25.August 1923 Oberburgemeister: Stadtpfleger: 1 000 000 Mark Nachahmung oder Falschung Strafbar. |
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| Protection type | Dry seal |
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German municipal inflation notgeld proliferated rapidly through 1923, but Tübingen's million-mark issue is worth noting for administrative reasons: by the time city authorities completed the bureaucratic process of authorizing, printing, and distributing a denomination this large, the purchasing power it represented had already eroded to nearly nothing. The dry seal — a simple embossed stamp rather than a printed security element — reflects how quickly printers and issuers had abandoned any pretense of sophisticated anti-counterfeiting measures by mid-1923.
The Reichsmark redenomination of November 1923 rendered the entire series worthless at one trillion old marks to one new mark.