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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Heilbronn (City of Heilbronn) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 130 × 76 mm |
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| Obverse description | Issued on firm white paper with a green and olive-green underprint, the note carries a black letterpress border enclosing the denomination and issuing authority text. A red five-digit serial number, followed by an asterisk and control numeral, appears to the right within the printed frame. Signature lines for the Oberbürgermeister and Stadtpfleger are printed below the main text block. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Heilbronn printed its own emergency millions in 1923 because it had to. The Reichsbank simply could not supply enough currency fast enough during the hyperinflationary collapse, so municipalities, businesses, and savings banks across Germany issued their own Notgeld — provisional local currency that the federal government tolerated out of necessity rather than policy. Carl Rembold A.-G. was a local printing firm pressed into monetary service alongside its ordinary commercial work.
The watermarked paper was a gesture toward security in a denomination that had become essentially worthless within weeks of issue.