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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Randower Kreiskommunalkasse (District of Randow) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 5 000 000 Mark (5 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Typographically bold Notgeld note printed in green and black on plain paper, with a double-rule border enclosing a green guilloche underprint of stylised foliate corner ornaments. The denomination 'Fünf Millionen Mark' is set in large Gothic script across the centre, surmounted by the legend 'ERSATZWERTZEICHEN'. A scroll vignette in the lower half carries the payment obligation text naming the Randower Kreiskommunalkasse, dated Stettin, 15. August 1923, with validity clause 'Gültig bis einen Monat n. Aufruf'. The lower-right area bears a serial number and a manuscript signature above the printed authority line 'Der Vorsitzende d. Kreisausschusses des Kreises Randow / Landrat'. |
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| Reverse lettering | Randowlied II. 6 Niederzahden Dörfer in großer Zahl Klecken vom Odertal hügel- hingen; Gärten im Frühlingsblühn oder im Sommerglühn reden von rechten Mühn bei jedermann. H. SCHUBERT M. BAUCHWITZ, STETTIN |
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Randow was a rural district in Pomerania, immediately east of Stettin, and like hundreds of German municipal and district authorities in mid-1923, its Kreiskommunalkasse was forced to print its own emergency currency as Reichsbank notes became worthless faster than they could be shipped. The five-million mark figure, staggering in nominal terms, reflects the hyperinflation peak that summer — by November 1923, such a note would have purchased almost nothing.
Bauchwitz was a Stettin commercial printer, not a specialist banknote house, which is exactly the point: local notgeld at this scale was a procurement problem first and a design problem second. H. Schubert's involvement suggests at least a cursory effort at dignified presentation, but the note's real interest lies in its administrative origin rather than its artistry.