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| Issuer | Landesbank der Rheinprovinz |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 Mark (100 000) |
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| Reverse lettering | LANDESBANK DER RHEINPROVINZ 100000 |
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| Protection description | Circular embossed dry seal applied to the lower centre of the obverse |
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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.