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100 000 Mark Landesbank der Rheinprovinz
| Issuer | Landesbank der Rheinprovinz |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 Mark (100 000) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper, the obverse is framed by a decorative border with the issuer's name repeated along all four sides in letterpress. The upper portion carries the payment obligation text in Gothic script alongside two small eagle vignettes in guilloche medallions, with the large denomination numeral '100 000 Mark' stated in the text. The central band is occupied by the large-format denomination inscription 'Hunderttausend Mark' in bold Gothic lettering set against an elaborate guilloche underprint, while the lower section bears the place and date of issue, a redemption notice, the issuer's General-Direktion signature, and a circular embossed stamp at centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | LANDESBANK DER RHEINPROVINZ 100000 |
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The Landesbank der Rheinprovinz was a provincial public bank serving the Rhineland, and by mid-1923 it was printing emergency Notgeld denominations that would have been unthinkable eighteen months earlier. This 100,000 Mark note belongs to the hyperinflationary acceleration phase — the point at which municipal and regional institutions across Germany were authorized to issue their own emergency currency simply to keep commerce moving, since Reichsbank notes couldn't reach circulation fast enough to meet demand.
L. Schwann was a Düsseldorf printing and publishing house better known for commercial work. The embossed stamp served as the primary authentication device — a telling sign of how quickly these notes were produced.