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1 000 000 Mark Handelskammer
| Issuer | Handelskammer zu Cassel (Chamber of Commerce, Kassel) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Firm white paper stock with a green screen-printed underprint. Text and denomination value printed in black, with the issuer name, denomination in numerals and words, date, and authorising body arranged in letterpress across the face. Five-digit serial number printed in green, followed by an asterisk to the right. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface reverse bearing an all-over green guilloche underprint composed of repeating radial rosette medallions printed by screen process, covering the entire surface of the plain white paper stock without any additional text or vignette. |
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The Handelskammer zu Cassel was one of dozens of regional chambers and municipal bodies that stepped into the currency vacuum during the hyperinflation peak of 1923, issuing notgeld to keep local commerce moving when Reichsbank notes became functionally worthless faster than they could be printed. A million marks — an almost incomprehensible figure a few years earlier — was a routine transactional denomination by mid-1923, worth less than a streetcar fare within weeks of issue.
DeNG catalog coverage for Kassel chamber issues is relatively sparse, suggesting this series had limited distribution beyond the immediate commercial district it was intended to serve.