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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Cities of Eschweiler and Stolberg |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 131 × 86 mm |
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| Reverse description | Orange and violet reverse with the same geometric guilloche border as the obverse. A large radiating sunburst guilloche rosette occupies the centre field, overlaid by a bold numeral "5" underprint at left. The denomination "5 Millionen Mark" is repeated twice in large Gothic blackletter, arching across the upper and lower portions of the design respectively, while a paired heraldic scroll vignette at lower centre mirrors the municipal arms of Eschweiler and Stolberg. The issuer names "STOLBERG ESCHWEILER" appear in vertical letterpress along both lateral margins. |
| Reverse lettering | 5 Millionen Mark 5 Millionen Mark Eschweiler Stolberg Rhld STOLBERG ESCHWEILER |
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Eschweiler and Stolberg were neighboring industrial towns in the Rhineland coalfield, and their joint issue of emergency currency — Notgeld — during the 1923 hyperinflation reflects both the administrative chaos of that period and the practical necessity of keeping local wages payable when Reichsbank notes simply could not reach circulation fast enough. A five-million-mark denomination that would have bought perhaps a loaf of bread in mid-1923 was worth almost nothing by November of the same year.
Joint municipal issues from two separate towns sharing a single printing run are uncommon in the Notgeld corpus, making the dual authority attribution more interesting than the denomination itself.