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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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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld note printed in dark ink on buff paper, with an ornate letterpress border enclosing four corner vignettes each bearing the numeral '5' within decorative cartouches. A central lozenge-shaped guilloche panel carries the denomination in bold Fraktur script, above the issuance date and the authorising body's name. A red vertically-printed serial number appears along the right margin, accompanied by a faint official stamp. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld des Landkreises Wiesbaden Fünf Millionen Mark Ausgegeben im August 1923 Der Kreisausschuß des Landkreises Wiesbaden J. V. |
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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.