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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Landkreises Recklinghausen und Magistrat der Städte Recklinghausen und Buer |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown and ochre Notgeld note with a multi-rule guilloche border framing the entire face. At upper centre, two municipal coat-of-arms vignettes flank the heading; the denomination '5000000' appears at upper left and the serial number at upper right. The large central denomination legend 'Fünf Millionen Mark' is set in heavy Gothic blackletter script over a pale guilloche underprint. Below runs the payment clause dated 'Recklinghausen, den 15. August 1923', beneath which three columns of manuscript signatures appear for the Kreisausschuss des Landkreises Recklinghausen and the Magistrate of the cities of Recklinghausen and Buer respectively. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5000000 Ausgegeben mit die Genehmigung des Herrn Reichsministers der Finanzen Dieser Schein wird nach Ablauf der durch amtlichen Aufruf zu bestimmenden Frist ungültig |
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This note was issued jointly by the Kreisausschuss of Recklinghausen district and the municipal magistrates of Recklinghausen and Buer — an unusual dual-authority arrangement that reflects how thoroughly the 1923 hyperinflation had overwhelmed the Reichsbank's capacity to supply adequate currency. Local government bodies across the Ruhr were forced to print their own emergency money, Notgeld, simply to make payroll and keep commerce moving.
The Ruhr occupation by French and Belgian forces, which began in January 1923, hit this coal-mining region with particular severity. The five-million-mark denomination places this note in the accelerating phase of inflation, before denominations climbed into the billions later that same year.