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1 000 000 Mark Eschweiler Bergwerks-Verein
| Issuer | Eschweiler Bergwerks-Verein |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Cream paper notgeld with a dark brown guilloche border framing the full face; the issuer's name in Fraktur script heads the note, with a red serial number at upper left and the denomination figure at upper right. Central letterpress text in bold Gothic display type reads the voucher value of Eine Million Mark, followed by validity and redemption clauses. The place and date of issue, Kohlscheid (Rhld.), den 15. August 1923, appear at lower left, flanked by two manuscript authorisation signatures, with the printer's imprint of Peter Urlichs, Aachen centred beneath the lower border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain cream paper surface devoid of any design, lettering, or ornamentation. |
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Eschweiler Bergwerks-Verein was one of the major coal mining operations in the Aachen coalfield, and like most large industrial employers in the Rhineland during the 1923 hyperinflation, it issued its own notgeld to pay workers when Reichsbank currency became practically worthless faster than it could be printed and distributed. These million-mark notes were a payroll instrument first, circulating medium second — the company had both the credibility and the captive workforce to make them function locally.
Peter Urlichs in Aachen handled a substantial volume of emergency currency printing for regional issuers during this period. The Merkelbach reference covers three catalogue variants for this denomination.