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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Düsseldorf (City of Düsseldorf) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| In circulation to | 1923 |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT · DÜSSELDORF FÜNF MILLIONEN MARK 5000000 MARK Die Stadt Düsseldorf zahlt bei ihren sämtlichen Kassen dem Vorzeiger 5000000 Mk. Der Zeitpunkt d. Einlösung wird öffentlich bekanntgegeben. Düsseldorf, d. 21. Aug. 1923. Der Oberbürgermeister. Reihe III |
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| Reverse lettering | STADT · DÜSSELDORF 5000000 MARK |
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Düsseldorf was under French and Belgian military occupation in 1923 when the city, like hundreds of German municipalities, was forced to issue its own emergency currency — Notgeld — because the Reichsbank could not supply denominations fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation. The five-million-mark face value, staggering by any prior measure, was already losing purchasing power within days of printing. City-issued Notgeld from the occupied Rhineland carries an additional layer of legal complexity: the occupying authorities maintained their own parallel economic controls, and municipal issuers operated under significant constraint.
Locally printed issues from this period frequently show uneven ink distribution and variable paper stock — not error notes, simply the reality of overwhelmed municipal print shops.