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3 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirks-Sparkasse Traunstein (District Savings Bank Traunstein) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 3 000 000 Mark (3 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Pale green note with blue letterpress text on a light underprint, framed by a geometric guilloche border. The central text block carries the denomination and issuing authority legends in bold Gothic script, flanked on each side by a pink-tinted vignette of a classical female face with floral wreath. A large purple cancellation stamp and three manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Pale green note with blue letterpress text on a light geometric guilloche underprint enclosed within a stepped green frame. The denomination "DREI MILLIONEN MARK" is printed in three bold blue banners across the centre, flanked symmetrically by two pink-tinted classical female face vignettes within rectangular cartouches. A black serial number appears at the top, and traces of a purple stamp are visible at the lower edge. |
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Traunstein is a small Bavarian market town near the Austrian border, and in the summer of 1923 its district savings bank was doing what hundreds of German municipal institutions were forced to do: printing its own emergency currency because Reichsbank notes were arriving too slowly and depreciating too fast to be useful. The 3,000,000 Mark denomination — unthinkable two years earlier — was by August 1923 barely enough for a loaf of bread. Leopoldseder was a local commercial printer, not a security press.
This is Notgeld in its most desperate phase, not the decorative collector-targeted issues of 1921.