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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkreis und Landkreis Coblenz |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 150 × 80 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typographically composed Kassenschein on cream paper with a central vertical green stripe underprint of fine parallel lines running the full height of the note. The denomination EINE MILLION MARK is rendered in large bold green letterpress type across the centre, surmounted by the heading KASSENSCHEIN / DES STADTKREISES UND DES LANDKREISES COBLENZ. in black. Below the denomination, a three-line redemption clause in small roman type gives the issue date of 1 August 1923, followed by the dual authority legends STADTKREIS COBLENZ and LANDKREIS COBLENZ with the respective signatories' handwritten signatures and alphanumeric serial number repeated at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | KASSENSCHEIN DES STADTKREISES UND DES LANDKREISES COBLENZ. EINE MILLION MARK Dieser Kassenschein kann vom 15. August 1923 ab aufgerufen und unter Umtausch bei der Stadtkasse und der Kreisgemeindekasse eingelöst werden. COBLENZ, den 1. August 1923. STADTKREIS COBLENZ Der Oberbürgermeister LANDKREIS COBLENZ Der Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses I. V.: |
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Coblenz — spelled with a C throughout the Weimar inflation period — was under French occupation in 1923 as part of the Rhineland arrangement imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. Local authorities retained enough administrative function to issue Notgeld, but the political situation was genuinely peculiar: a German municipality printing emergency currency while a foreign military force controlled the streets.
The one-million mark denomination dates this note to the middle phase of the hyperinflation spiral, before denominations climbed into the billions and trillions later that same year. By the time most of these notes reached the public, their purchasing power had already eroded past any practical use.