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1 000 000 Mark Städtische Sparkasse
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Dülken |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 165 × 98 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured ground with a fine horizontal-line underprint in violet, enclosed within a dotted guilloche border. Upper left bears a large circular green seal of the Stadt Dülken, incorporating a heraldic lion rampant before a gate tower with cross. Issuer title 'Städtische Sparkasse Dülken' is set in bold red letterpress across the top, with series and serial number at upper right. The denomination 'Eine Million Mark' is rendered in large green letterpress script across the centre, above which the text of the promise to pay appears in smaller type; a blue circular Städtische Sparkasse rubber stamp and two manuscript signatures are applied at lower centre, with date 'Dülken, den 8. 8. 1923' and the disclaimer clause printed along the bottom. |
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| Protection type | Dry stamp |
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Dülken's municipal savings bank issued this million-mark note at the absolute peak of Weimar hyperinflation, when German cities and towns were authorized — effectively compelled — to print their own emergency currency (Notgeld) because the Reichsbank simply could not produce legal tender fast enough to meet daily wage demands. M. Schmitz was a local printer, not a security printing house, which is why the only anti-counterfeiting measure is a dry stamp rather than watermarked stock or intaglio work. At a million marks, this note was already nearly worthless by the time the ink dried.