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1 000 000 Mark Landesbank der Rheinprovinz
| Issuer | Landesbank der Rheinprovinz |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in purple and salmon-red, the obverse carries a dense guilloche border enclosing the full design field, with vertical ornamental column vignettes at both lateral margins and a Prussian eagle underprint centred in the middle ground. The large Gothic blackletter denomination inscription 'Eine Million Mark' dominates the body text, with the issuer's name 'Landesbank der Rheinprovinz' at the top and the place-and-date line 'Düsseldorf, 3. August 1923' below, followed by the 'General-Direktion' imprint. The printer's credit 'Bachem, Köln.' appears at the foot of the note. |
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| Protection description | Intricate machine-engraved guilloche patterns covering the border and underprint fields on both obverse and reverse, providing anti-counterfeiting protection through complex geometric lathe-work. |
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The Landesbank der Rheinprovinz was one of dozens of regional and municipal institutions that issued emergency currency — Notgeld — during the catastrophic hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsmark's collapse forced local authorities to produce their own denominations simply to make payroll. By the time million-mark notes entered circulation that summer, the denomination was already losing practical value within days of printing. Bachem's Cologne press was printing for multiple issuers simultaneously, working under severe paper and ink supply pressure.
The guilloche security printing is almost ironic at this denomination — anti-counterfeiting measures on a note rendered worthless by inflation faster than forgers could have acted.