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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Burg bei Magdeburg |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT BURG Bez. Magdeburg 1000000 Mark Gültig im Kreise Jerichow I. Burg, 22. 8. 23. Der Magistrat. MAGISTRAT DER STADT BURG |
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| Reverse lettering | 1000000 Mark Eine Million Mark Bis auf weiteres gültig im Kreise Jerichow I. Der Ablauf der Gültigkeit wird amtlich bekanntgegeben. Kreisausschuss des Kreises Jerichow I |
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Burg bei Magdeburg was a mid-sized industrial town, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1923, its local government found itself forced into the currency printing business as Reichsbank notes became worthless faster than they could be shipped. This Magistrat-issued million-Mark note is a product of that local desperation — Notgeld at hyperinflationary denominations, authorized not by any central banking authority but by a town council trying to keep commerce functional for another few days.
Ernst Laute was a local Burg printer, not a security press. The practical consequences of that show up in known examples of this series — modest registration, no intaglio work, nothing to deter forgery in a world where forgery was barely worth the effort anyway.