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1 000 000 Mark Württembergische Notenbank
| Issuer | Württembergische Notenbank |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 159 × 105 mm |
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| Obverse description | Orange-tinted note with an elaborate black letterpress border of interlocking scroll and wave guilloche patterns enclosing the entire design. At the top centre, a circular vignette contains a left-facing portrait bust of a historical figure in 18th-century dress, flanked by ribbon banners inscribed with the bank name. The denomination "Eine Million Mark" is printed in large red Gothic (Fraktur) script across the centre, with the numeral "1,000,000" in bold black at the foot. The place and date of issue, Stuttgart den 1. August 1923, appear in black Fraktur text, followed by the issuer name "Württembergische Notenbank" and two manuscript signatures above the designations "Für den Aufsichtsrat" and "Der Vorstand". |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark brown on a buff ground, the reverse is dominated by a central landscape vignette rendered in fine line engraving, showing rolling hills surmounted by a ruined castle under a dramatic sky of radiating rays. Below the vignette, a motto scroll reads "Seid einig, einig, einig!" The denomination "1,000,000 M" is set in large bold numerals at the foot, flanked by ornamental crosses, with the Württembergische Notenbank circular monogram seal at lower right. A Gothic-script anti-counterfeiting legal warning runs along the bottom margin, and the words "Württembergische Noten" appear in large Fraktur across the top, framed by vertical denomination panels on each side. |
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The Württembergische Notenbank was one of four private German note-issuing banks — alongside the Bayerische, Sächsische, and Badische Notenbanken — that retained their right of issue under the Reichsbank Law of 1875, a privilege that put them in the awkward position of having to keep pace with Reichsbank inflation policy during the hyperinflation of 1923. This million-mark denomination, printed locally in Stuttgart, arrived at a moment when the figure itself was becoming obsolete within weeks of issue.
The Württembergische Notenbank's notes from this period are less frequently encountered than comparable Reichsbank emergency issues, partly because the bank's circulation area was geographically constrained to Württemberg.