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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuß des Landkreises Wiesbaden |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 5 000 000 Mark (5 000 000) |
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| Reverse description | Plain buff paper with a simple letterpress border of repeating geometric ornaments and decorative corner rosettes. The denomination in large Fraktur script occupies the upper portion, below which a centrally placed vignette of a bound sheaf of grain ears is rendered in fine line engraving. A multi-line validity clause in Fraktur letterpress fills the lower portion of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | Fünf Millionen Mark Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb 4 Wochen nach öffentlicher Aufforderung zur Einlösung bei der Kreiskommunalkasse in Wiesbaden vorgelegt wird. |
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The Landkreis Wiesbaden — the rural district surrounding the city proper — issued this note independently of the city's own emergency currency during the hyperinflationary peak of 1923. District-level Notgeld at the five-million Mark denomination reflects conditions in late summer to early autumn of that year, when the Reichsmark was losing value faster than notes could be printed and distributed through normal banking channels. Local administrative bodies across Germany stepped into the vacuum, issuing their own paper to keep commerce and wages moving.
District committee issues are generally less studied than municipal ones, and print runs were often small — survival rates vary considerably depending on whether stocks were redeemed and pulped or simply abandoned when the Rentenmark stabilization made them worthless overnight in November 1923.