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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Wald (City of Wald) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER STADT WALD ÜBER 5 MILLIONEN Fünf Millionen Mark DIESER GUTSCHEIN WIRD VON ALLEN KASSEN DER STADTGEMEINDE WALD EINGELÖST ★ ER VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT NACH AUFKÜNDIGUNG IN DEN ZEITUNGEN DES OBEREN KREISES SOLINGEN. WALD 5. AUG. 1923. BÜRGERMEISTER D No 118649 ★ D |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a large central vignette in brown intaglio-style print comprising two male figures in working dress — a bare-headed industrial worker to the left and a hatted craftsman to the right — each seated and flanking the Wald municipal coat of arms, which displays an oak-branch device on a shield surmounted by a castellated tower. An industrial townscape forms the background underprint, and a curved ribbon banner below reads 'Stadt Wald' at the extremities with the anti-counterfeiting legend 'Nachahmung Strafbar' on a central scroll. The denomination 'Fünf Millionen Mark' appears in Gothic script within a foliate cartouche at the top centre. |
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Stadt Wald was an independent municipality in the Bergisches Land region — it would be absorbed into Solingen just a year after this note's issue, in 1929. The 5,000,000 Mark denomination places this squarely in the hyperinflationary peak of summer-autumn 1923, when German notgeld issuers were printing new denominations almost weekly to keep pace with the collapsing purchasing power of the Reichsmark.
Printing by Walther Stadtgesellschaft Solingen — a local commercial printer rather than a specialist banknote house — was entirely typical of municipal emergency currency at this stage. Speed mattered far more than security.