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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Hardenberg-Neviges (City of Hardenberg-Neviges) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 5 000 000 Marks (5 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | die Einlösungsfrist wird öffentlich bekannt gemacht. Ausgegeben mit Genehmigung des Reichsfinanzministers und des preußischen Handelsministers Stadt Hardenberg-Neviges 5 000 000 die Stadt Hardenberg-Neviges zahlt bei ihren Kassen an den Vorzeiger fünf Millionen Mark. |
| Reverse description | Printed in dark brown on cream paper, the reverse centres on a fine letterpress line-work vignette of Schloß Hardenberg, showing the medieval castle complex set against a wooded hillside, captioned 'Schloß Hardenberg'. Flanking the vignette are two vertical panels each bearing the denomination '5000000 Mark' in bold Gothic type over a dotted guilloche underprint, while 'Fünf Millionen Mark' runs across the upper border and 'Stadt Hardenberg-Neviges' across the lower. A lower text panel carries the issue date 'Neviges, den 15. August 1923', the manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister, a serial number, and a circular municipal seal of the Stadt Hardenberg-Neviges. |
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Hardenberg-Neviges was a small industrial town in the Bergisches Land region of the Rhineland, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1923, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — as the Reichsbank simply could not print fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation. By the time notes at this denomination were being issued in mid-to-late 1923, the mark was losing value so rapidly that five million of them represented a brief, shrinking purchasing power that could evaporate within hours of a note being printed.
Municipal Notgeld at this scale was almost never redeemed in any meaningful sense. The stabilization of the currency in November 1923, via the introduction of the Rentenmark, rendered the entire float worthless overnight.