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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Marienberg |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über EINE MILLION MARK 1000000 M Ausgegeben mit Genehmigung des Reichsfinanzministeriums. Der Gegenwert ist sichergestellt. Marienberg, am 11. August 1923. Der Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Marienberg. Amtshauptmann. Vorsitzender der Bezirksversammlung Wer Gutscheine nachmacht oder verfälscht, oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte im verschafft und in den Verkehr bringt, wird strafrechtlich verfolgt. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, showing the plain pale salmon-pink paper stock with the obverse text visible in mirror image as a light show-through. A faint stamped serial number is visible in the upper right area, corresponding to the obverse control number. |
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Marienberg lies in the Erzgebirge, the ore-mining district of Saxony, and its Amtshauptmannschaft — a mid-tier administrative district, not a bank — issued this million-mark note as Notgeld during the hyperinflation peak of 1923. District and municipal authorities across Germany were printing emergency money by then because Reichsbank notes simply could not reach the provinces fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. By August 1923, a million marks was barely enough for a loaf of bread.
Otto Henning A.G. in Greiz was a regional commercial printer pressed into currency work by demand, not specialization. Quality varied across their Notgeld output.