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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Beuel (Municipality of Beuel) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünf Millionen Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von allen öffentlichen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in der Beueler und Bonner Ortsblättern. Die Gemeinde Beuel haftet für die Einlösung Beuel, den 15. August 1923. Der Bürgermeister Die Zeit kann mich… Dat Beuele Brockemannche. |
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| Protection description | Drei Ringe (Keller#180) |
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Beuel was a small municipality on the right bank of the Rhine, directly across from Bonn, and like hundreds of German towns in mid-1923 it was forced to issue its own emergency currency — Notgeld — because the Reichsbank simply could not print fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation. A five-million mark denomination, unthinkable eighteen months earlier, was routine by August 1923. Within weeks it would be laughably inadequate.
The Rhenania-Druckerei in Bonn was a logical choice for a municipality of this size — close, fast, and already handling similar commissions across the region. The watermarked paper was a modest security measure for a note whose purchasing power evaporated faster than any forgery operation could exploit it.