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10 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Der Landkreis Essen (District of Essen, Prussian Province of Rhine) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on cream paper, the obverse is divided into a wide main panel at right and a vertical left tab. The main panel carries a dense guilloche underprint over which the denomination legend 'Zehn Millionen Mark' is set in bold Gothic (Fraktur) letterpress; above it the issuer name 'Der Landkreis Essen' and the text 'zahlt dem Einlieferer dieses Gutscheines 1 Monat nach Aufruf in den Essener Tageszeitungen' state the redemption conditions. The issue date 'Essen, den 15. August 1923' and the manuscript signature of the Landrat appear at lower right, with a serial number at the foot; the left tab bears the vertical inscription '10 Millionen' in black Fraktur on an olive-tinted ornamental ground. |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie E Der Landkreis Essen zahlt Zehn Millionen Mark dem Einlieferer dieses Gutscheines 1 Monat nach Aufruf in den Essener Tageszeitungen. Essen, den 15. August 1923. Der Landrat I. V.: 10 Millionen |
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Der Landkreis Essen was a rural administrative district surrounding the city of Essen proper — a legally distinct entity from the Stadtkreis Essen, which issued its own emergency currency simultaneously. This note is Notgeld in its most extreme form: by the time 10,000,000-Mark denominations were being printed in mid-1923, the Reichsbank's own printing facilities could not keep pace with demand, and local authorities across the Rhineland were authorized — effectively compelled — to supply their own circulating medium.
The Ruhr occupation by French and Belgian troops, which had begun in January 1923, severely disrupted normal financial channels throughout the region, accelerating the collapse that made these denominations necessary within months of their issue.