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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Landrat des Kreises Moers |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 5 000 000 Mark (5 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Uniface Notgeld note printed in dark brown on cream paper, with a scalloped decorative border enclosing an elaborate guilloche underprint of repeating arch motifs. The denomination 'Fünf Millionen Mark' is set in large Gothic blackletter script at the centre, surmounted by the issuer title 'Kreis Moers'; a serial number appears at lower right. A two-line text below states the note's validity at all municipal cash offices of the Kreis Moers, with the issue date 'Moers den 1 August 1923' at lower left, an official circular seal of the Landrat at centre, and a facsimile signature at lower right; the bottom panel bears the authorisation legend 'Ausgefertigt mit Genehmigung des Reichsfinanzministeriums'. |
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| Obverse lettering | Reihe 2 Kreis Moers Fünf Millionen Mark Zahlbar bei sämtlichen kommunalen Kassen im Kreise Moers. Gültig noch 6 Monate nach erfolgter Aufkündigung in den im Kreise Moers erscheinenden Zeitungen. Moers den 1 August 1923 Der Landrat I.B. Ausgefertigt mit Genehmigung des Reichsfinanzministeriums. |
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The Kreis Moers — an administrative district on the left bank of the Rhine, just northwest of Duisburg — was among hundreds of German local authorities that issued emergency paper during the hyperinflation peak of 1923. By the time million-Mark denominations appeared in late summer and autumn of that year, the Reichsbank's central supply could not keep pace with wage demands; district councils, municipalities, and even private firms were legally permitted to fill the gap with locally authorized Notgeld.
Five million Marks sounds extraordinary. In October 1923, it would not have covered a streetcar fare for long.