1 000 000 Mark Obercassel im Siegkreis

Obercassel im Siegkreis was a small municipality on the right bank of the Rhine, directly across from Bonn, and in the summer of 1923 its Bürgermeisterei was doing what thousands of German local authorities were forced to do: printing its own emergency currency because Reichsbank notes were arriving too slowly to keep pace with hyperinflation. By the time a million-mark denomination felt necessary, the purchasing power implied by that figure was already obsolete within days of printing.

Johannes Düppen was a local printer — not a specialist banknote house. The signed authorization by J. B. Hüser gave the notes whatever legal standing they had, which was provisional at best.