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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreiskommunalkasse des Kreises Marburg (District Treasury of Marburg) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Kreiskommunalkasse des Kreises Marburg vergütet dem Einlieferer dieses Gutscheines EINE MILLION MARK Er verliert seine Gültigkeit 4 Wochen nach Aufruf im amtl. Kreisblatt Marburg, den 22. August 1923 Der Kreisausschuß: (Signatures) Reihe A No 23614 Nur mit Prägestempel des Kreisausschusses gültig Hess. Verlag K. Euker, Marburg (Translation: The District Treasury of the Marburg District reimburses the issuer of this voucher with ONE MILLION MARKS. It expires 4 weeks after publication in the official district gazette. Marburg, 22 August 1923 The District Committee: (Signatures) Series A No. 23614 Valid only with the embossed stamp of the District Committee Hessian Publisher K. Euker, Marburg) |
| Reverse description | Two pictorial vignettes printed in grey-black on an unadorned white ground. At left, an arched panel reproduces a statue of St. Elizabeth as displayed inside the Marburg Elisabethkirche. At right, a larger landscape vignette after an original painting by Domenico Quaglio (1786–1837) shows the Gothic twin spires of the Elisabethkirche with Marburg Castle rising on the wooded hillside behind. |
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Marburg's district treasury resorted to printing its own million-mark emergency money in 1923 because the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough currency fast enough — hyperinflation was accelerating so quickly that new denominations were obsolete almost on arrival. Notes like this one were issued by hundreds of local German authorities simultaneously, each acting independently to keep wages and commerce moving at all. The Hessischer Verlag K. Euker was a local publishing house pressed into service as a printer, not a security printing firm.
The embossed stamp was the issuer's primary authentication measure — a telling indicator of how improvised the whole exercise was.