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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreis Kempen (District of Kempen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | KREIS KEMPEN Fünf Million Mark Zahlbar dem Inhaber dieses Scheines bei Lieferung bei den Kassen des Kreiskommunalverbandes Kempen sowie bei Gemeinden im Kreise Kempen. Der Umlaufzettel verliert seine Gültigkeit nach Ablauf von vier Wochen nach Aufruf in den im Kreise erscheinenden Zeitungen. Kempen, den 1. Aug. 1923 Der Landrat |
| Reverse description | Printed in dark blue-green on plain paper, the reverse presents a bold typographic design within a ruled and wave-pattern border with decorative side panels of diamond and lozenge guilloche. The numeral '5000000' appears in smaller type at upper left and upper right, flanking a central foliate rosette vignette; the large denomination numeral '5000000' dominates the centre within an oval cartouche, with 'MARK' inscribed directly below. A two-line inscription certifying Reichsministerium authorisation is set beneath, and a red serial number with prefix letter is printed at the bottom centre. |
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Kreis Kempen, a rural administrative district in the Lower Rhine region, issued this 5,000,000 Mark note during the hyperinflation of summer 1923, when the Reichsbank's printing capacity could not keep pace with the collapsing currency. German municipalities and districts were authorized — effectively compelled — to issue their own Notgeld to keep local wages and commerce moving. By August 1923, denominations that had seemed absurd in January were already obsolete.
District-level issues like this one were typically printed by regional job printers on short runs, which makes survival rates uneven across the series.