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1 000 000 Mark Städte- und Staatsbank der Oberlausitz
| Issuer | Städte- und Staatsbank der Oberlausitz |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 1 000 000 Mark (1 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in dark green on cream paper, with vertical guilloche border bands running along both left and right margins. The denomination 'Mark eine Million' is set in large Gothic blackletter type at centre, above a circular rosette underprint in rose-red. The issuing instruction, drawn in the form of a cheque order addressed to 'Die Stadtgirokasse in Zittau', appears in smaller Gothic text above the denomination, with the date 'Zittau, den 11. August 1923' and the name of the issuing authority 'Städte- und Staatsbank der Oberlausitz' below. Three manuscript signatures appear at lower centre, and the notation 'Nur zur Verrechnung!' is printed at lower left, restricting the note to account settlement only. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, consisting of plain cream-coloured paper with no design, text, or ornamental elements. |
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The Städte- und Staatsbank der Oberlausitz was a regional savings and credit institution based in Zittau, in the Upper Lusatia district of Saxony. Like hundreds of German municipal and regional banks in 1923, it was forced into emergency currency issuance as Reichsbank notes became worthless faster than they could be printed. The million-mark denomination, which would have been unimaginable two years earlier, was by mid-1923 barely sufficient for everyday transactions.
Vereinigte Druckereien P. Gutte was a local Zittau commercial printer — not a specialist security printer — pressed into service precisely because speed mattered more than sophistication.