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1 000 000 Mark Kreis Schleswig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuß des Kreises Schleswig |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Designer(s) | L. Handorff, Kiel |
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| Obverse description | The left portion of the note carries a letterpress vignette of the Idstedt-Kirche (Idstedt Church) with its twin spires set against billowing clouds, captioned below with the Low German motto 'Gott gew ehr Bestand / Un segn uns Land'. A serial number box marked 'No' occupies the upper-left corner. The denomination 'Eine Million Mark' is set in large decorative blackletter script across the right half of the note, followed by the redemption text, the date 'Schleswig, den 14. August 1923', the issuing authority, and two manuscript signatures at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | (Translation: 50000 Marks Fifty Thousand Marks This note was redeemed by the district municipal cash register in Schleswig. Fr loses its validity one month after it has been called up and announced in the newspaper. Schleswig, August 14, 1923) |
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During the hyperinflation peak of 1923, German district authorities — Kreise — were legally empowered to issue their own emergency currency, Notgeld, when the Reichsbank could no longer supply adequate denominations fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. The Kreisausschuß des Kreises Schleswig was one of hundreds of such bodies printing locally to fill that gap. A million marks, unthinkable just two years earlier, was by mid-1923 barely enough for a loaf of bread.
L. Handorff of Kiel handled both design and printing — a regional commercial printer pressed into monetary service, not a specialist security press.