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1 000 000 Mark Oberamt Riedlingen
| Issuer | Oberamtssparkasse Riedlingen |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-toned notgeld printed entirely in Fraktur blackletter script on plain paper with a faint map underprint. The denomination "Eine Million Mark" is set in large display type at centre, flanked above and below by dotted border rules. Issuer title, bearer clause, serial number, date, and three manuscript signature lines appear in letterpress. |
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| Obverse lettering | Oberamtssparkasse Riedlingen Sparkassenschein Eine Million Mark zahlt die Oberamtssparkasse Riedlingen dem Einlieferer dieses Kassenscheins 1 000 000 Nachahmung oder Fälschung strafbar. Riedlingen, 12. August 1923. Sparkassendirektor: Sparkassier: Für die Kontrolle: (Translation: Oberamt Savings Bank Riedlingen Savings Bank Note One Million Marks The Oberamt Savings Bank Riedlingen pays the bearer of this cash note 1,000,000 Imitation or forgery punishable by law. Riedlingen, August 12, 1923. Savings Bank Director: Savings Bank Cashier: For Control:) |
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Riedlingen is a small market town on the upper Danube in Württemberg, and its Oberamtssparkasse — the district savings bank tied to the administrative office — was among hundreds of local German institutions forced to issue emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923. By the time million-mark denominations were being printed at the district level, the Reichsbank had effectively lost control of the money supply; local authorities were authorized, then simply compelled, to fill the gap themselves. The Oberamt system in Württemberg gave these notes a degree of institutional legitimacy that purely municipal issues lacked.
Riedlingen's notgeld of this period is not especially rare among collectors of Württemberg hyperinflation material, but regional coverage in major catalogs remains uneven.