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10 000 000 Mark Hessische Landesbank
| Issuer | Hessische Landesbank |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | HESSISCHE * LANDESBANK 10.000.000 * NOTGELDSCHEIN * UEBER * 10.000.000 Zehn Millionen Mark Dieser Geldschein wird im Volksstaat Hessen von den öffentlichen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er wird von der Hessischen Landesbank eingelöst und verliert seine Gültigkeit mit dem Tage, der in der Darmstädter Zeitung öffentlich bekanntgegeben wird. Darmstadt, den 1. September 1923 Direktorium der Hessischen Landesbank zehn-millionen-mark-hessische-landesbank |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark green on a plain light green ground with horizontal underprint bands. A central heraldic vignette shows the crowned Hessian lion rampant within a shield, rendered in fine line engraving. Flanking the shield on either side, the denomination 'Zehn Millionen' is set in blackletter type, with 'HESSISCHE' and 'LANDESBANK' inscribed above left and right respectively. Decorative ornamental flourishes and small cross-shaped corner motifs complete the composition. |
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The Hessische Landesbank issued this note during the acute phase of the 1923 hyperinflation, when regional and municipal institutions across Germany were authorized to produce Notgeld to supplement — and often replace — the increasingly worthless Reichsbank currency. By mid-1923, ten million marks was already an unremarkable denomination; within weeks of notes like this entering circulation, they were functionally obsolete.
Printed locally in Darmstadt rather than through one of the major specialist printers, which accounts for the comparatively plain production quality seen across this series.