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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Vohwinkel (Municipality of Vohwinkel, Prussian Rhine Province) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 167 x 92 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed in blue ink, with a double-rule border framing a dense yellow-ochre letterpress underprint of repeated 'StadtVohwinkel' text across the entire field. The issuer name 'STADT VOHWINKEL.' is set in large bold capitals at the top, with the numeral '1000000' in oversized bold type at centre; a two-column text block below carries the promise-to-pay legend and the issue date 'Vohwinkel, 10. Aug. 1923', accompanied by the manuscript signature of the deputy mayor. The denomination 'EINE MILLION MARK.' is repeated in large bold capitals at the foot, with the series and number designation printed vertically along the left margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT VOHWINKEL. 1000000 Die Stadt Vohwinkel zahlt bei der Stadtkasse und Sparkasse an den Vorzeiger Eine Million Mark. — Der Zeitpunkt der Einlösung wird öffentlich bekannt gemacht. Vohwinkel, 10. Aug. 1923. Der Bürgermeister: i. V.: EINE MILLION MARK. Serie B² No |
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Vohwinkel was a small industrial town in the Bergisches Land, absorbed into the newly created city of Wuppertal in 1929. Like hundreds of German municipalities during the hyperinflation of 1923, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — because the Reichsbank simply could not print and distribute legal tender fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. By August 1923, a million marks was roughly the cost of a loaf of bread, which gives the denomination its bleak arithmetic.
Municipal Notgeld of this period was typically printed locally on short notice, and production quality varies considerably within the same series. Separation tears along fold lines are common on surviving examples of Vohwinkel issues.