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1 000 000 Mark Landesbank der Provinz Hannover
| Issuer | Landesbank der Provinz Hannover |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue-toned notgeld printed in letterpress, centred around the elaborately rendered coat of arms of the Province of Hannover, flanked by decorative cornucopia-style supports and framed by dense foliate arabesque borders. A circular seal of the Landesbank der Provinz Hannover appears at the top centre, above the arms. The denomination "Eine Million Mark" is stated in a cartouche across the middle of the note, with the numeral "1 Million" repeated in oval medallions at left and right, and the text of the redemption clause and issuing authority printed below in Gothic typeface. |
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| Reverse description | Deep blue letterpress reverse dominated by a large central guilloche medallion enclosing the bold numeral "1000000" in white relief, surrounded by intricate acanthus scroll ornaments. The word "GUTSCHEIN über" appears above the medallion and "MARK" below, all within a tightly patterned geometric border frame. The issuer name is split across the lower corners — "LANDESBANK DER" at lower left and "PROVINZ HANNOVER" at lower right — with the place and date "HANNOVER den 9. August 1923" at the upper left and the serial number prefix letter and digits in red at the upper right. |
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The Landesbank der Provinz Hannover was one of dozens of regional German institutions that resorted to emergency high-denomination issues during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsmark's collapse made million-mark notes a practical necessity for routine transactions. This note was printed locally by Franz Scherrer in Hannover rather than routed through one of the major national security printers — a reflection of how completely the central printing infrastructure had been overwhelmed by demand that year.
Notgeld at this denomination existed in circulation for weeks at most before becoming worthless.