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1 000 000 Mark Homberg am Niederrhein
| Issuer | Stadt Homberg (Niederrhein) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| In circulation to | 20 August 1923 |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld voucher on olive-green floral underprint with a left-side stub panel marked 'SERIE I No.' in a bordered column. The denomination 'Eine Million Mark' is set in large Gothic script at centre, above a two-line bearer clause and validity notice. Lower right carries the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister above a numerically printed serial number at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie I No Stadt Homberg (Niederrhein) Gutschein über Eine Million Mark Eine Million Mark zahlt die Stadtkasse Homberg (Niederrhein) dem Einlieferer dieses Gutscheines. Gültig vom 3. bis 20. August 1923 Homberg (Niederrhein), den 2. August 1923. (Translation: Series I No City of Homberg (Lower Rhine) Voucher for One Million Marks The city treasury of Homberg (Lower Rhine) pays one million marks to the bearer of this voucher. Valid from August 3 to August 20, 1923 Homberg (Lower Rhine), August 2, 1923.) |
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Homberg am Niederrhein — now part of Duisburg following the 1975 municipal reforms — issued this one-million Mark note during the hyperinflation peak of 1923, when Reichsbank notes simply could not be printed and distributed fast enough to meet daily wage demands. Municipalities across Germany stepped in with Notgeld to cover the shortfall, and by mid-1923 the denominations had climbed from thousands to millions almost weekly.
The Stadt Homberg issues from this period are relatively minor in the Notgeld literature — a small industrial Rhine town without the print runs or collector appeal of larger issuers. Finding a crisp, unfolded example is harder than the obscurity of the issuer might suggest.