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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss Monschau (District Committee of Monschau) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Plain yellow underprint ground with a single large rectangular ornamental frame composed of interlocking diamond guilloche elements and scrollwork corner flourishes, all printed in black. At the centre of the frame, a bold hexagonal cartouche carries the numeral '5000000' in heavy block type. The remainder of the reverse is unprinted, leaving the pale yellow paper ground fully exposed outside the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | 5000000 |
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Monschau is a small market town in the Eifel hills near the Belgian border, and its district committee issued this note during the peak inflationary spiral of August–September 1923, when municipal and regional bodies across Germany were printing emergency currency — Notgeld — simply to meet weekly payrolls. Five million marks sounds extraordinary; by late 1923 it barely covered a loaf of bread.
The Merkelbach reference places this squarely in the documented local Notgeld series for the Aachen region. District-level issues like this one typically had very short circulation windows before denomination obsolescence forced replacement with even larger figures.