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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Landkreis Solingen (District of Solingen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black and golden-ochre, with a continuous guilloche border of looped scroll ornaments framing the entire field and bold denomination numerals '5' in each corner and 'MILLIONEN' inscribed across both the upper and lower registers. The central vignette, rendered in fine line engraving, presents a panoramic view of a neoclassical public building complex — identified as the Landratsamt (district administrative offices) at Opladen — accompanied by a tall commemorative column to the left and flanking structures set among trees. |
| Reverse lettering | 5 MILLIONEN 5 |
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One of thousands of Notgeld issues produced during the hyperinflation peak of 1923, when German municipal and district authorities were legally permitted — indeed compelled — to print their own emergency currency simply to meet weekly payroll as the Reichsmark collapsed faster than Berlin could supply new notes. By August 1923, five million marks would not have covered a tram fare for long.
Hermann Rabitz was a local commercial print house, not a specialist banknote printer, which is exactly the point — Solingen's district administration used whoever was available.