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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Cities of Eschweiler and Stolberg |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 5 000 000 Mark (5 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Orange and violet Notgeld on plain paper with a geometric guilloche border in violet running the full perimeter. The denomination "5 Millionen Mark" is printed in large Gothic blackletter script at centre, above a block of text stating acceptance by the municipal treasuries of Eschweiler and Stolberg and the banks of the Eschweiler-Stolberger Industriegebiet, with validity expiring four weeks after public notice. At lower centre a paired heraldic vignette displays the coats of arms of Eschweiler and Stolberg on a scroll banner, flanked by the facsimile signatures of the two Bürgermeisters, with the date "Eschweiler u. Stolberg den 24. Aug. 1923" and the legend "Die Bürgermeister" above; small circular municipal seal impressions appear at upper left and upper right, and the series designation "Reihe A" is printed at upper right. |
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| 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.