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1 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Oberamtsstadt Leutkirch (Stadtkasse Leutkirch) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-green guilloche underprint covers the entire note, with a left stub bearing vertical bar lines and repeated denomination text. The central field is enclosed within a double-ruled rectangular border with cut corners, and carries the issuer heading in letterpress at top, the denomination in large bold typeface at centre, and a payment clause in smaller text below. The date 'Leutkirch, den 21. August 1923' appears at lower centre, flanked by two manuscript signatures above their respective title lines; an anti-counterfeiting warning is printed at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | OBERAMTSSTADT LEUTKIRCH STADT-KASSENSCHEIN Eine Million Mark zahlt die Stadtkasse Leutkirch dem Einlieferer dieses Kassenscheins 1000000 MARK Leutkirch, den 21. August 1923. Nachahmung oder Fälschung ist strafbar ! Stadtschultheiß: Stadtpfleger: NR. |
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Leutkirch was a small administrative town in Württemberg, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1923, it was forced into emergency currency issuance simply to meet payroll. The Reichsbank could not print and distribute legal tender fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation, so the burden fell to local treasuries — Stadtkassen — who printed their own Notgeld in whatever denominations the week demanded. One million marks, an unthinkable figure in 1921, had become a routine wage-related denomination by mid-1923.
Local printing is confirmed by the issuer's own facilities in Württemberg, which typically produced utilitarian output with minimal engraving sophistication.