1000 Mark

Bamberg's 1922 thousand-mark notgeld belongs to the hyperinflationary wave that forced German municipalities to issue emergency currency as the Reichsbank struggled to keep denominations relevant against collapsing purchasing power. By mid-1922, even large municipal issues were obsolescent within weeks of printing — a thousand marks bought less each day they circulated.

City-issued notgeld at this denomination sits in an awkward transitional moment: too large to be the collectible small-change notgeld of 1920–21, too small to matter by late 1923 when trillion-mark instruments were commonplace.