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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Bad Wildungen (City of Bad Wildungen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Green and maroon letterpress note with an ornate rectangular border of repeating geometric and scrollwork guilloche patterns. A black circular official seal with central emblem appears alongside a stamped serial number. Issued 15 August 1923 by the Gemeindevorstand of Bad Wildungen. |
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| Reverse description | Maroon and light green letterpress print with a central vignette of a large half-timbered building (Fachwerkhaus) set within a light green rectangular frame. An intricate maroon geometric border surrounds the entire note. Text inscriptions appear above and below the central vignette. |
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Bad Wildungen, a spa town in Hesse-Nassau, issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the hyperinflationary collapse of 1923, when the Reichsmark's purchasing power was evaporating fast enough to make million-mark denominations a practical necessity rather than an abstraction. Municipal and local authorities across Germany were effectively forced into printing their own money as the central supply of legal tender failed to keep pace with demand.
The DeNG 7/8 reference places this within the documented corpus of German Notgeld issues, catalogued by district. Spa municipalities like Bad Wildungen typically had smaller print runs than industrial centers, which affects survivorship.