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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Regierungsbezirk Trier und Provinz Birkenfeld |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain orange ground with a faint laurel wreath underprint at centre, enclosed within a bold dark green interlaced guilloche border with ornate rosette cornerpieces. The denomination "-5 000 000 MARK-" is printed in large, widely spaced sans-serif capitals across the centre of the field. The printer's imprint "SCHAAR & DATHE A.-G. TRIER." appears in small type at the bottom centre below the border. |
| Reverse lettering | -5 000 000 MARK- SCHAAR & DATHE A.-G. TRIER. |
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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.