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1 000 000 Mark Handelskammer
| Issuer | Handelskammer zu Cassel (Chamber of Commerce, Kassel) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 1 000 000 Mark (1 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | Handelskammer zu Cassel Gut für 1.000.000 Eine Million Mark Cassel,den 17.August 1923 Die Handelskammer |
| 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.