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1 000 000 Mark overstamp on 50 Mark
| Issuer | District of Eder (Waldeck) (Federal state of Waldeck) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 145 x 105 mm |
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| Obverse description | TOP-LEFT: Note’s 1922 value. TOP-RIGHT: Note’s 1922 validating text. CENTRE: Map of the Eder District. BOTTOM-LEFT: Banner on top and below Gold-and-Black bearing Eight-Pointed Star. BOTTOM-RIGHT: Banner on top and below Black-and-Gold Shield bearing Eight-Pointed Star. OVERSTAMP: 1923 Value & Date-of-Issue diagonally, in Red Ink. 1923 Bank Seal, in Purple Ink. 1923 Validating Signature, in Blue Ink. |
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| Reverse description | TOP: Banner of Issuing Entity CENTRE: Schloss Waldeck flanked by Palms. BOTTOM-LEFT: German Verse and Note’s 1922 value. BOTTOM-RIGHT: Latin Verse and Note’s 1922 value. OVERSTAMP: Note’s 1923 face-value, stamped diagonally in Red Ink. |
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Waldeck was one of the smallest German federal states — barely 1,100 square kilometers — and during the hyperinflation of 1923 it lacked both the infrastructure and the time to commission purpose-printed emergency currency. The solution here was blunt: take existing 50 Mark stock and overstamp it to one million. By August 1923, that figure was itself obsolescent within weeks of issue.
Paul Pusch was a local printer in Bad Wildungen, the district's spa town. Notgeld of this type was often produced on whatever press and stock were immediately available, which accounts for the variation in ink saturation and stamp registration seen across surviving examples of this overstamp series.