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2 000 000 Mark Landesbank der Rheinprovinz
| Issuer | Landesbank der Rheinprovinz |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 2 000 000 Mark (2 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Cream-coloured note with ochre letterpress throughout. The issuer's name, LANDESBANK DER RHEINPROVINZ, is printed in large capitals along the top and bottom margins. A central intaglio vignette, framed by a geometric guilloche border of diagonal hatching, carries the denomination ZWEI MILLIONEN MARK in bold block letters. Below the denomination, a text block in Fraktur script reads the promise-to-pay clause, dated Düsseldorf, den 1. September 1923, signed on behalf of the General-Direktion. A serial number appears vertically along the right margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | LANDESBANK DER RHEINPROVINZ ZWEI MILLIONEN MARK zahlt die Landesbank der Rheinprovinz dem Vorzeichner. Der Zeitpunkt der Einlösung wird öffentlich bekanntgemacht. Düsseldorf, den 1. September 1923 Landesbank der Rheinprovinz General-Direktion |
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The Landesbank der Rheinprovinz was one of dozens of regional and municipal institutions that issued emergency Notgeld during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank could not print fast enough to meet demand. By August of that year, denominations that would have seemed absurd twelve months earlier were already too small for a loaf of bread. The two-million-mark note exists precisely because the inflation outpaced the presses — many such issues were obsolete within weeks of printing.
Düsseldorf-printed throughout, which is consistent with the Landesbank's own operations in the Rhine Province. The designer credit to Schwarzkopf is atypical for provincial emergency issues, most of which went uncredited.