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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Regierungsbezirk Trier und Provinz Birkenfeld |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Orange and dark green Notgeld note with an elaborate guilloche border enclosing an inner rectangular text panel. The denomination "Fünf Millionen Mark" is set in large blackletter script across the upper portion, below which the serial number appears. The body of the note carries a multi-line German text stating the note is redeemable at all public cashiers of the Regierungsbezirk Trier and the Province of Birkenfeld, with the issue date "TRIER, den 14. August 1923" at lower left and facsimile committee signatures at lower right beneath the legend "Der Ausschuss:". A vertical left margin strip repeats the denomination "-5 000 000 MARK-" in upright sans-serif type. |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünf Millionen Mark No Dieser Schein wird von sämtlichen öffentlichen Kassen des Regierungsbezirks Trier und der Provinz Birkenfeld eingelöst. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in den Amtsblättern des Reg.-Bez. Trier und der Provinz Birkenfeld. Die unterzeichneten Kommunalverbände haften für die Einlösung. Die vereinigten Kreise des Reg.-Bez. Trier, die Stadt Trier und die Provinz Birkenfeld. Der Ausschuss: TRIER, den 14. August 1923. -5 000 000 MARK- |
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Regierungsbezirk Trier und Provinz Birkenfeld was one of dozens of regional German administrative bodies forced into emergency currency issuance during the hyperinflation crisis of 1923, when the Reichsbank simply could not print fast enough to meet demand. Schaar & Dathe, a Trier commercial printer with no particular specialism in security printing, produced this and related notgeld denominations locally — a practical necessity, not a deliberate choice.
By the time five-million-mark denominations were routine, the notes were often worth less than the paper within days of issue. Trier sat within the French-occupied Rhineland, which added a separate layer of political friction to an already collapsing monetary situation.