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10 000 Mark Landesbank der Provinz Westfalen
| Issuer | Landesbank der Provinz Westfalen |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown and orange tones on plain paper, the obverse is framed by a multi-line decorative border with a geometric guilloche-pattern outer band repeating '10 000 MARK' along all four margins. A bold Gothic-script banner at the top reads 'Westfälisches Notgeld', below which the large numeral '10000' is set in heavy letterpress type with a guilloche underprint, followed by the denomination spelled out as 'Zehntausend Mark' on a dark ribbon panel. The lower portion carries the issuing text in German script typeface, the date 'den 10. Februar 1923', a circular embossed official seal of the Landesbank der Provinz Westfalen at centre, a manuscript signature to the lower left, and a serial number to the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, also printed in brown and orange, carries a multi-line geometric border repeating the denomination vertically along both side margins ('ZEHNTAUSEND MARK'). To the left, a bold vertical panel displays '10000' in large orange and brown numerals. At centre, two overlapping oval vignettes bear imagery referencing the Province of Westphalia, surrounded by decorative foliage motifs. Across the lower centre, a curved dark ribbon carries the numeral '10000 Mke.' in large type. The upper and lower horizontal margins carry the guarantee text in capital letters. |
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The Landesbank der Provinz Westfalen was one of dozens of regional German institutions forced into emergency currency production during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank's output could not keep pace with denominations spiraling upward weekly. Fr. Wilh. Ruhfus was a Dortmund commercial printer — not a security press — and the limitations of that show in the relatively simple execution compared to Reichsdruckerei output from the same period.
At 10,000 Mark, this note was already obsolete in purchasing power within weeks of issue. By November 1923, a single US dollar bought over four trillion Marks.