5 000 000 Mark

Bielefeld's municipal savings bank became one of the more unusual actors in the Weimar hyperinflation not because of this note's face value — by late 1923 five million marks was barely sufficient for a loaf of bread — but because the Stadt-Sparkasse had already issued notgeld on unconventional materials including linen and silk, part of a deliberate local strategy to produce emergency currency that might resist devaluation through novelty and collector demand.

E. Gundlach, the local commercial printer responsible for this issue, was pressed into producing denominations that escalated almost weekly throughout 1923.