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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Ahrweiler (District Committee of Ahrweiler) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 5 000 000 Mark (5 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie G Gutschein über Fünf Millionen Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von der Kreissparkasse Ahrweiler bezw. deren Zweigstellen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit nach entsprechender Bekanntmachung in den Zeitungen des Kreises. Der Kreis Ahrweiler haftet für die Einlösung. Ahrweiler, den 5. Juli 1923. Der Kreisausschuß des Kreises Ahrweiler: P. Blachner, Ahrweiler Fünf Millionen |
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| Reverse lettering | Kreis Ahrweiler 5 Millionen Mark |
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Ahrweiler was among hundreds of German districts forced to issue emergency currency — Notgeld — as hyperinflation made Reichsbank notes functionally obsolete faster than they could be printed and distributed. By mid-1923, denominations that had seemed absurd six months earlier were already insufficient for daily purchases. The Kreisausschuss issued this 5,000,000 Mark note through P. Blachner, a local printer, which was typical of the period's administrative scramble: municipal and district bodies contracting whoever was available rather than established security printers.
The DeNG reference suffix "x" generally indicates a color or paper variant within the base type — worth confirming against the Grabowski-Mehl catalog before attributing.