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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Eschershausen (City of Eschershausen, Brunswick) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Typeset notgeld bond printed in black on an ochre guilloche underprint, with a decorative geometric border enclosing the central text field. A small municipal coat of arms vignette appears at centre, flanked by the large Gothic-script denomination "1 Million Mark". Series letter, serial number, date, and facsimile signatures of the Rat der Stadt appear in their respective positions. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse showing only the bleed-through impression of the obverse letterpress text and guilloche underprint visible through the thin paper stock, with the decorative border pattern faintly apparent. |
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Eschershausen is a small market town in what was then the Free State of Brunswick — population in the early 1920s well under three thousand. That a municipality this size was printing its own million-mark emergency currency in 1923 speaks to how completely the Reichsbank's distribution network had collapsed during the hyperinflation peak. C. Bruns was a local printing firm, not a specialist banknote manufacturer, and the production quality reflects that.
This is Notgeld in its most desperate form — not the decorative collector-oriented issues of 1921 and 1922, but functional emergency scrip churned out to meet payroll when official notes simply weren't available in sufficient quantity or denomination.