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1 000 000 Mark overstamp on 5 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Küstrin (Cüstrin) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Cüstriner Stadtkassen-Schein Fünf Mark Zahlt die Stadthauptkasse in Cüstrin gegen diesen Kassenschein dem Einlieferer. Vom 1. März 1919 ab kann dieser Stadtkassenschein aufgerufen und unter Umtausch gegen andere Zahlungsmittel durch die Stadthauptkasse in Cüstrin eingezogen werden. Cüstrin, den 19. November 1918 Der Magistrat Securius N. Sehlitzberger Wer Kassenscheine nachmacht oder verfälscht oder nachgemachte oder gefälschte sich beschafft und in den Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter zwei Jahren bestraft. Gültig über eine Million Mark Cüstrin, den 23.8.1923 Der Magistrat Securius Butz |
| Reverse description | The reverse bears the text of the inflationary overprint alongside the original denomination text, all in the same typeset Gothic script used on the note, with the counterfeiting warning repeated in full at the lower portion. |
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Küstrin's million-mark overstamp on an existing 5 Mark stock is a direct artifact of the hyperinflation spiral of summer–autumn 1923, when municipal authorities across Germany were authorized to issue notgeld to fill the void left by the Reichsbank's inability to supply denominations fast enough. Overprinting on previously printed — and suddenly worthless — lower denominations was cheaper and faster than commissioning new plates, and Carl Flemming AG in Glogau was one of the busier provincial printers meeting that demand.
Küstrin itself, a fortress town on the Oder, would be absorbed into the new Polish administrative boundary after World War II and renamed Kostrzyn. Its municipal paper from 1923 is consequently among the rarer Brandenburg notgeld issues.