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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Düren (City of Düren) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Reference(s) | Merkelb.2#10-11 |
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| Obverse lettering | 5000000 Dieser Gutschein über FÜNF MILLIONEN MARK ist durch Hinterlegung von Reichsschatanweisungen gedeckt. Er wird von den kommunalen Kassen und Sparkassen, sowie den Banken des Kreises Düren in Zahlung genommen. Der Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit mit Ablauf einer Woche nach Aufruf in den Dürener Zeitungen. Die Stadtgemeinde Düren haftet für die Einlösung. Stadt Düren 1923 DÜREN, den 8. August 1923. Der Oberbürgermeister: |
| Reverse description | Printed in dark blue on a plain cream background with a fine overall guilloche underprint and a sawtooth outer frame border. "FÜNF MILLIONEN MARK" appears in bold capitals across the top, while a large central rosette guilloche vignette in two flanking lobes frames an oval panel bearing the numeral "5000000". The issuer name "STADT DÜREN" is set in large serif capitals across the lower portion. |
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Düren issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the hyperinflationary collapse of 1923, when Reichsbank notes were depreciating faster than they could be printed and municipalities across Germany scrambled to fill the gap. A denomination of five million marks sounds extraordinary; by mid-1923 it was barely enough for a loaf of bread, and notes of this type were frequently superseded by higher denominations within weeks of issue.
The Merkelbach reference numbers 10–11 suggest two distinct serial or color variants within the same emission run — a common practice in municipal Notgeld production, where a single print run might yield distinguishable types now catalogued separately.