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1 000 000 Mark Lich
| Issuer | Hessische Bürgermeisterei Lich (Stadtkasse Lich, Oberhessen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper Notgeld (emergency currency) voucher of typeset letterpress construction, entirely without pictorial vignette or guilloche underprint. The denomination 'M. 1 000 000' is set in bold Gothic type at the upper left, with a handwritten serial number in a ruled box at the upper right; the large central legend 'Eine Million Mark' is rendered in ornate blackletter script. A circular violet official stamp of the Volksstaat Hessen Bürgermeisterei Lich bearing a lion passant appears at the lower left, accompanied by two manuscript signatures below the printed lines 'Der Bürgermeister:' and 'Der Beigeordnete:'. |
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| Obverse lettering | M. 1 000 000 No Gutschein. Eine Million Mark zahlt die Stadtkasse in Lich (Oberhessen) gegen diesen Gutschein dem Einlieferer. – Der Einlösungstag wird durch die Bürgermeisterei bekannt gegeben. Lich (Oberhessen), den 20. August 1923 Hessische Bürgermeisterei Lich Der Bürgermeister: Der Beigeordnete: |
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Lich is a small market town in Oberhessen, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1923, its Stadtkasse was forced to issue its own emergency currency as Reichsbank notes became worthless faster than they could be printed and distributed. The Bürgermeisterei — the mayor's office functioning here as the issuing authority — had no printing infrastructure of its own, so these notes were produced locally under urgent conditions, which is why production quality varies so sharply across the series.
The sole security feature is an official municipal stamp, applied by hand. By the time this denomination reached circulation, a million marks bought almost nothing.