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1 000 000 Mark Hilden
| Issuer | Stadt Hilden (City of Hilden) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 000 000 MARK STADT HILDEN Eine Million Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von allen städt. Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung im Rheinischen Volksblatt, Hilden Düsseldorfer Nachrichten, Benrather Tageblatt, Ohligser Anzeiger, Haaner Volkszeitung, Opladener Zeitung. Die Stadtgemeinde Hilden haftet für die Einlösung Hilden den 11. August 1923 Der Bürgermeister (Translation: 1,000,000 Marks City of Hilden One Million Marks This voucher is accepted by all municipal cash offices. It becomes invalid one month after announcement in the Rheinisches Volksblatt, Hilden Düsseldorfer Nachrichten, Benrather Tageblatt, Ohligser Anzeiger, Haaner Volkszeitung, Opladener Zeitung. The municipal community of Hilden is liable for its redemption. Hilden, August 11, 1923 The Mayor) |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 000 000 MARK herausgegeben auf Grund der Ermächtigung des Reichsfinanzministeriums STADT HILDEN UMS JAHR 1840 (Translation: 1,000,000 Marks issued on the basis of the authorization of the Reich Ministry of Finance City of Hilden around the year 1840) |
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Hilden is a small industrial town in the Rhineland, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1923, it was forced to print its own emergency currency as hyperinflation rendered Reichsbank notes obsolete almost the moment they were issued. The million-mark denomination feels staggering until you remember that by mid-1923 that sum would barely cover a loaf of bread — and within weeks of this note's issue, the denominations climbed into the billions.
Municipal Notgeld of this period was typically printed locally on whatever stock was available, which accounts for the wide variation in paper quality and print registration seen across surviving Hilden examples.