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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Bad Homburg vor der Höhe |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 129 x 84 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing the plain beige paper stock; faint show-through of the obverse text is visible due to the thinness of the paper. |
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| Signature(s) | Walter Lübke and Dr. Ludwig Lipp |
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Bad Homburg vor der Höhe was one of hundreds of German municipalities forced into emergency currency production during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank could not print and distribute legal tender fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. A million marks — an almost incomprehensible figure a few years earlier — was by mid-1923 barely sufficient for basic transactions. C. Naumanns Druckerei in Frankfurt handled the presswork, with a watermarked paper stock providing at least nominal security for a denomination that would itself be obsolete within weeks of issue.