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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtrat Weiden (City Council of Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in dark brown and red on a pale cream ground, with a fine geometric guilloche underprint of interlocking circles covering the central field. The heading NOTGELD DER STADT WEIDEN-OPF. runs in bold letterpress across the top within a ruled border, below which the denomination EINE MILLION in large Gothic script and MARK in a bold display typeface occupies the centre, accompanied by a redemption clause in smaller Gothic text to the right. The issue date Weiden-Opf., den 14. August 1923 is set in the lower centre, flanked by two manuscript signatures above their respective institutional captions, with the vertical serial number printed in red along the left margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADT WEIDEN-OPF. Eine Million Mark zahlt die Stadtsparkasse Weiden-Opf. dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines innerhalb 14 Tagen nach Aufruf in den amtlichen Blättern. Weiden-Opf., den 14. August 1923. Stadtrat Weiden: rechtsk. Bürgermeister Stadtsparkasse: Sparkassen-Direktor Druck Otto Spintler, Weiden. |
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Weiden's million-mark note is a product of the hyperinflation peak of summer 1923, when German municipal and district authorities were legally empowered to issue their own emergency currency — Notgeld — to fill the vacuum left by the Reichsbank's inability to supply sufficient denominations fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. By the time notes like this reached the public, a million marks would buy roughly what a few pfennigs had purchased two years earlier.
Otto Spintler was a local commercial printer, not a specialist banknote house. That provenance matters: the security features are essentially absent, and the paper stock varies between surviving examples.