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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Fallingbostel |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Dark green on pale grey-green geometric underprint, with a fine cross-pattern guilloche field. A large central oval guilloche medallion bears the numeral '5000000' in white, encircled by an anti-counterfeiting legend. Flanking circular rosette vignettes carry the word 'Mark', and the denomination '5000000' repeats diagonally in each corner within the ornamental border. |
| Reverse lettering | 5000000 Mark Nachahmungen dieses Notgeldscheines werden strafrechtlich verfolgt. (Translation: 5,000,000 Marks Counterfeiting this emergency banknote will be prosecuted under criminal law.) |
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Fallingbostel was a rural administrative district in the Lüneburg Heath, and its Kreisausschuss — the county executive committee — was one of thousands of German municipal and regional bodies that issued Notgeld during the hyperinflation of 1923 simply because the Reichsbank could not supply denominations large enough for daily transactions. By August of that year, five million marks would barely cover a loaf of bread.
Gebrüder Jänecke in Hannover were experienced commercial printers who handled a substantial volume of emergency currency contracts for Lower Saxon authorities during this period. The firm had deep roots in the region going back to the early nineteenth century.