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10 000 Mark Landesbank der Rheinprovinz
| Issuer | Landesbank der Rheinprovinz |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 10 000 Mark (10 000) |
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| Reverse lettering | LANDESBANK DER RHEINPROVINZ 10.000 10.000 |
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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.