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1 000 000 Mark Rheinisch-Westfälische Bauindustrie Aktien-Gesellschaft
| Issuer | Rheinisch-Westfälische Bauindustrie Aktien-Gesellschaft, Düsseldorf |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 7/8#1171 |
| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld printed in black letterpress with a decorative guilloche border incorporating rosette corner ornaments and interlaced chain motifs. The issuer's name appears in a cartouche at the top, while the denomination "Eine Million Mark" is set in bold Gothic blackletter script across the centre of the note. Text blocks in Fraktur script record the issue date of 15 August 1923, the Düsseldorf address at Friedrichstraße 30, a redemption clause valid until 31 August 1923, the series letter and serial number in the upper field, and two manuscript signatures of company representatives at lower right; a diagonal pink cancellation line and a blue "Abgelegen" handstamp are also present. |
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| Obverse lettering | RHEINISCH-WESTFÄLISCHE BAUINDUSTRIE AKTIEN-GESELLSCHAFT · DÜSSELDORF Reihe Z GUTSCHEIN No 8914 Ausgegeben auf Grund der Ermächtigung des Reichsfinanzministeriums Eine Million Mark Dieser Gutschein wird an unserer Hauptkasse bis zum 31. August 1923 eingelöst. Nach diesem Termin verliert er seine Gültigkeit. Düsseldorf, 15. August 1923 Friedrichstraße 30 Rheinisch-Westfälische Bauindustrie Aktien-Gesellschaft Düsseldorf Druck: Linder & Longuich, Düsseldorf |
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Rheinisch-Westfälische Bauindustrie AG was a construction and building materials company, and like hundreds of German industrial firms in 1923, it was legally permitted — even expected — to print its own emergency currency when the Reichsbank could no longer supply enough physical notes to meet payroll. This was Notgeld in its most functionally desperate form: companies printing money so workers could buy bread the same afternoon they were paid, before the value collapsed by evening.
Linder & Longuich were a Düsseldorf commercial printer, not a security press — which is exactly what the hyperinflation period demanded of ordinary print shops.