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10 000 000 Mark Oberamt Riedlingen
| Issuer | Oberamtssparkasse Riedlingen |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain white paper with a light green underprint and black border frame enclosing all text. The denomination '10 MILLIONEN MARK' is printed in bold black letterpress at centre, surrounded by the full issuer text and date. A vertical oval violet ink control stamp appears to the left, and a six-digit serial number in black is positioned within a raster field. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Riedlingen is a small Swabian district town on the upper Danube, and its Oberamtssparkasse was among hundreds of German savings institutions granted emergency authority to issue notgeld during the hyperinflation peak of 1923. By the time million-mark denominations had become routine, the 10,000,000-mark face value — staggering by any pre-war measure — was already struggling to cover a week's basic groceries. The watermark in the paper is one of the few concessions to anti-counterfeiting in a period when forgery was practically pointless anyway: the notes depreciated faster than a forger could pass them.