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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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| Size | 150 x 96 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown on pale green paper, the note is enclosed within a decorative letterpress border of interlaced guilloche and chain ornaments with rosette corner medallions. The issuer's name in a cartouche at the top reads RHEINISCH-WESTFÄLISCHE BAUINDUSTRIE AKTIEN-GESELLSCHAFT · DÜSSELDORF, below which the series designation Reihe Z and a serial number box appear flanking the large central inscription GUTSCHEIN in Gothic blackletter. The denomination EINE MILLION MARK is rendered in bold Gothic script within a guilloche underprint band across the centre, with the issue date Düsseldorf, 30. August 1923, address Friedrichstraße 30, issuer's name, and two manuscript signatures appearing in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing the blank paper stock with show-through of the obverse design elements visible through the paper, including the guilloche border, central denomination band, and text, all appearing in mirror image. The paper surface displays natural aging and fold lines consistent with circulation use. |
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Rheinisch-Westfälische Bauindustrie AG was a construction holding company, not a bank — yet like hundreds of German industrial firms in 1923, it was legally permitted to issue emergency currency (Notgeld) to pay its own workers when the Reichsbank could not supply physical notes fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation. At the peak of the crisis, the gap between a worker receiving wages and those wages losing purchasing power was measured in hours, not days.
Linder & Longuich were a Düsseldorf commercial printer, pressed into monetary work by necessity rather than specialization. The million-mark denomination, staggering by any pre-war standard, was routine by mid-1923.