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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Helmbrechts (City Treasury of Helmbrechts, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 1 000 000 Marks (1 000 000) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
| Protection description | Circular red ink stamp of the Stadtkasse Helmbrechts applied to the reverse |
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Helmbrechts was a small textile-manufacturing town in Upper Franconia, and its city treasury joined hundreds of German municipal bodies in 1923 by issuing emergency inflation currency — Notgeld — as the Reichsmark collapsed beyond any practical use. By August of that year, a million marks was barely enough to buy a newspaper, which makes the denomination here less dramatic than it appears.
W. Saalfrank was a local printer, almost certainly working under considerable pressure and with limited materials. The official stamp substitutes for more sophisticated security — common practice for small-municipality issues where the cost and logistics of engraved printing made no economic sense given the note's likely lifespan of days or weeks.