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1 000 000 Mark Sobernheim
| Issuer | Stadt Sobernheim (City of Sobernheim) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset notgeld voucher printed in black on plain paper. The denomination "1 000 000" appears at top, followed by the issuing authority "Stadt Sobernheim" and the legend "Gutschein uber Eine MILLION MARK." Validity conditions and the Bürgermeister authentication clause are set in smaller letterpress text, dated 25. August 1923. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 000 000 Stadt Sobernheim Gutschein uber Eine MILLION MARK Dieser Gutschein ist ein gultiges Zahlungsmittel. Der Zeitpunkt, mit dem der Schein seine Gultigkeit verliert, wird offentlich bekannt gemacht. Sobernheim, 25. August 1923. Gutscheine ohne Nummer, Stempel und Unterschrift des Burgermeisters haben keine Gultigkeit. |
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Sobernheim is a small town in the Nahe valley, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1923, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — when the Reichsbank's hyperinflationary collapse made official denominations functionally useless within weeks of printing. The one-million Mark face value, staggering on its face, was already borderline inadequate by the time most such notes reached circulation that summer and autumn.
Municipal Notgeld of this period was typically printed locally on whatever stock was available, which accounts for the wide variation in paper quality and ink stability seen across survivors.