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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Landau in der Pfalz (Stadthauptkasse) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 1 000 000 Marks (1 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | NOT·GELD·SCHEIN STADT LANDAU, PFALZ B.Nr. EINE MILLION MARK 1000000 MARK zahlt die Stadthauptkasse Landau, Pfalz dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines in gesetzlichen Zahlungsmitteln. Der Schein wird ungültig, wenn er nicht binnen einem Monat nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung bei den veröffentlichten Einziehungsstellen eingereicht wird. LANDAU, den 1. SEPTEMBER 1923. Der Bürgermeister: REMVNE·RATIO PECVNIAE HONORIS |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-khaki on white paper, entirely covered by a folk-art decorative pattern of square and rectangular panels arranged in a grid, each containing naïve white-on-khaki motifs of birds, rabbits, grapes, flowers, fruit, and foliage in a style reminiscent of regional Palatinate folk ornament. A central cartouche with a dotted scalloped border encloses the denomination EINE MILLION MARK in bold letterpress, surmounted by a small civic coat-of-arms vignette with a crowned tower device. |
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Landau in der Pfalz sat inside the French-occupied Rhineland zone during the hyperinflation of 1923, which complicated the municipal government's ability to obtain emergency currency from the Reichsbank. Like dozens of other Pfalz towns, the Stadthauptkasse was forced to issue its own Notgeld to cover payroll and basic commerce as the mark's purchasing power collapsed by the week. A million marks, unimaginable eighteen months earlier, was already inadequate for a day's groceries by mid-1923.
Locally printed Notgeld from this region frequently shows rushed production — thin paper stock, inconsistent inking — because civilian print shops were working beyond capacity.