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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Landkreises Gladbach |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Entirely green letterpress reverse with a geometric guilloche border of stylised angular and triangular interlocking motifs forming a bold frame around the central field. The denomination 5000000 is printed in very large outlined numerals at centre, set within a dotted rectangular cartouche, the zeros rendered with an elongated oval cut-out design characteristic of German inflation-era Notgeld printing. |
| Reverse lettering | 5000000 |
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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.