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10 000 Mark Landesbank der Rheinprovinz
| Issuer | Landesbank der Rheinprovinz |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green note printed in letterpress on plain paper, with the issuer's name repeated in the top and side borders forming a continuous guilloche frame. The upper register carries a Gutschein overprint watermark-style text and small Imperial eagle vignettes flanking the large numeral "10000" underprint. The central text block in Gothic script reads "Die Landesbank der Rheinprovinz in Düsseldorf zahlt dem Vorzeiger" above the large denomination legend "Zehntausend Mark". The lower portion states the date "Düsseldorf den 1. Februar 1923", the redemption clause, a central embossed bank seal, and the facsimile signature of the General-Direktion to the right. |
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| Protection type | Embossed seal |
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The Landesbank der Rheinprovinz was a provincial public bank serving the Rhine Province, and by early 1923 it was printing emergency high-denomination notes simply to keep pace with the hyperinflationary spiral consuming the Weimar economy. This 10,000 Mark issue belongs to a period when such figures, staggering months earlier, were becoming routine denominations for everyday transactions.
The embossed seal was one of the few anti-counterfeiting measures still practical when printing schedules were being compressed to days. French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr, which began in January 1923, directly disrupted Rhineland commerce and accelerated local note issuance throughout the province.