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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreiskommunalkasse des Kreises Marburg (District Treasury of the Marburg District) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is occupied entirely by a large landscape vignette rendered in fine intaglio-style engraving, reproducing a panoramic townscape of Marburg as seen from the Augustenruhe viewpoint, after an original engraving of 1857. The composition shows the spires of the Elisabethkirche at left, Marburg Castle on the hillside at right, and the Lahn valley stretching into the distance with a steam train visible on the railway line. A caption inscription appears along the lower edge of the vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | Marburg: Blick von der Augustenruhe (nach einem Stich im Jahre 1857) (Translation: Marburg: View from the Augustenruhe (after an engraving in 1857)) |
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Kreiskommunalkasse notes occupy a peculiar corner of German inflation numismatics — these were emergency issues by district-level administrative treasuries, not commercial banks or municipal savings institutions, which gives this Marburg piece a bureaucratic rather than mercantile character. By the time million-mark denominations were rolling off local presses in mid-1923, the Reichsmark's collapse had forced even county governments to commission their own printers simply to make payroll.
The embossed stamp was the issuer's primary authentication device — entirely typical for Notgeld of this administrative tier, where intaglio security printing was neither available nor economically viable. Hessischer Verlag K. Euker operated locally in Marburg, keeping the whole production loop within the district.