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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Blaubeuren (City of Blaubeuren) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Green and pink Notgeld issued on plain paper, with an elaborate guilloche border framing the entire face. A photographic vignette of a half-timbered building occupies the left panel, with the denomination '1,000,000 Mark' inscribed below it. The right panel carries the issuing authority 'Stadt Blaubeuren' in Gothic script above the large denomination legend 'Eine Million Mark', followed by the payment obligation text, validity date, and two manuscript signatures beneath the titles 'Stadtschultheiß' and 'Stadtpfleger', with a circular printer's seal in the centre. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, consisting of plain cream-coloured paper stock with no design, text, or ornamental elements, bearing only a faint serial number impression in the upper right corner. |
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Blaubeuren is a small town in Württemberg with a population that barely exceeded three thousand in the early 1920s. That a municipality this size was printing million-mark notes in 1923 says everything about how completely the Reichsbank's supply chain had collapsed during the hyperinflation peak — local authorities printed their own Notgeld simply because waiting for central bank currency meant workers went unpaid for days while denominations became worthless in transit.
Dr. Karl Höhn was a local printer, not a specialist currency producer. The note's survival depends almost entirely on whether it escaped the mass redemptions and pulpings that followed stabilization under the Rentenmark in November 1923.