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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt und Kreis Sonneberg (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Pink-tinted notgeld Gutschein printed in black letterpress on plain paper, with the denomination 'Eine Million Mark' in large blackletter script across the centre. A lion coat-of-arms vignette appears at lower left alongside the Sonneberg six-pointed floral heraldic shield at lower right. Four manuscript signatures appear below the issuing authority lines, with the serial number printed in red at left. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse printed on plain uncoated paper, largely unprinted and colourless, showing faint offset bleed-through of the obverse letterpress text. No distinct design elements, vignettes, or inscriptions are present on this face. |
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Sonneberg issued this one-million Mark note in 1923 as Notgeld — emergency municipal currency printed during the hyperinflationary collapse that made Reichsbank denominations functionally useless within weeks of printing. By mid-1923, local authorities across Germany were authorized to issue their own provisional paper simply to keep wages and commerce moving. Sonneberg, a small Thuringian town known primarily for its toy manufacturing industry, was among hundreds of municipalities that exercised this right.
The one-million Mark denomination, staggering by any earlier standard, was already marginal by the time most such notes reached circulation in August–September 1923. Billion-Mark issues followed within weeks.