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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Landkreises Gladbach |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress Notgeld note with a divided left panel containing two agricultural vignettes framed by wheat ears: an upper oval scene of a sower in a field and a lower oval scene of a horse-drawn harvesting machine. A serial number box appears at upper left, with the denomination numeral 5000000 in bold Gothic type at the lower left panel. The right half carries the issuing authority name in Fraktur script at the top, the denomination in large ornate lettering, a full legal text body, the issue date M. Gladbach 8. Aug. 1923, and three manuscript signatures below the authorisation lines. |
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| Obverse lettering | LandKreis Gladbach Dieser Gutschein über Fünf Millionen Mark ist durch Hinterlegung von Reichsschatzanweisungen gedeckt. Er wird von sämtlichen öffentlichen Kassen des Landkreises Gladbach in Zahlung genommen. Der Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit mit Ablauf von 2 Wochen nach Aufruf in den Tageszeitungen des genannten Landkreises. M. Gladbach 8. Aug. 1923. Namens des Kreisausschusses Der Landrat: Die Kreisdeputierten: 5000000 B. KÜHLEN/M.GLADBACH |
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The Landkreis Gladbach — the rural district surrounding the city of Mönchengladbach, distinct from the city's own municipal administration — issued this note at the height of the Rhineland hyperinflation in 1923, when the Reichsbank's supply of emergency currency consistently lagged behind the collapsing purchasing power of each successive denomination. Five million marks, an incomprehensible figure before that year, had become routine spending money by late summer.
B. Kühlen was a local Mönchengladbach printer, not a specialist currency house — exactly the kind of firm conscripted into notgeld production when demand outstripped the capacity of established security printers. The district's Kreisausschuss, its elected executive committee, held the issuing authority rather than the city itself.