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1 000 000 Mark Landesverband des Landesteils Lübeck
| Issuer | Landesverband des Landesteils Lübeck |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark blue-green and black on cream paper, framed by a dotted and ruled border with the issuer's name repeated along the top and bottom margins, and the denomination '1 Million' repeated in the lateral guilloche bands on all four sides. The large Gothic-script denomination 'Eine Million Mark' dominates the upper central area, flanked on both sides by handwritten serial numbers prefixed 'No'. The central body carries three paragraphs of German text in Fraktur typeface setting out the redemption conditions, dated 'Eutin, den 15. August 1923', and bears a central circular official seal of the Landesverband des Landesteils Lübeck, with two manuscript signatures to the lower left and right accompanied by printed designation lines identifying the signatories as Regierungspräsident and members of the Landesausschuss. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain cream paper surface with no text, vignette, or design elements of any kind. |
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The Landesverband des Landesteils Lübeck was one of hundreds of regional German authorities that stepped in to issue Notgeld during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank simply could not print fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. By the time million-mark denominations were circulating as ordinary transactional currency, the notes were already losing value between morning and afternoon.
Lübeck's status as a Free State within the Weimar Republic gave it administrative autonomy that made emergency currency issuance straightforward — the regional government had the legal standing to act without waiting for Berlin.