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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtrat Bad Reichenhall (City Council of Bad Reichenhall) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 Million Mark Gutschein Eine Million Mark Dieser Gutschein wird sofort nach Behebung des Bargeldmangels zur Einlösung aufgerufen. Die Einlösung erfolgt durch die Bayer. Vereinsbank Filiale Bad Reichenhall, Bayer. Hypotheken- und Wechselbank Filiale Bad Reichenhall, Stadthauptkasse Bad Reichenhall. Bad Reichenhall, den 13. August 1923 Stadtrat Bad Reichenhall (Translation: 1 Million Mark Voucher One Million Marks This voucher will be called for redemption immediately after the cash shortage is resolved. Redemption takes place at the Bayer. Vereinsbank branch in Bad Reichenhall, Bayer. Mortgage and Exchange Bank branch in Bad Reichenhall, City Main Treasury Bad Reichenhall. Bad Reichenhall, August 13, 1923 City Council Bad Reichenhall) |
| Reverse description | Uniface note; the reverse is unprinted, showing plain cream paper stock. |
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Bad Reichenhall's million-mark note dates from the summer of 1923, when Germany's central hyperinflationary spiral forced municipal authorities — Stadträte with no printing mandate — to issue emergency Notgeld simply to meet payroll and keep local commerce moving. By August of that year, the Reichsbank could not supply currency fast enough; towns across Bavaria printed their own, usually for days or weeks before the denomination became worthless anyway.
Regional Notgeld at this level was typically printed by local job shops on whatever stock was available, which accounts for the variable paper quality and ink registration seen across surviving examples of Bavarian municipal issues from this period.