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5 000 000 Mark Bensberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bensberg (Municipality of Bensberg) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 140 × 90 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Bensberg GUTSCHEIN ÜBER Fünf Millionen Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von der Gemeindekasse Bensberg und von allen anderen öffentlichen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung, die in der Bensberger Volkszeitung und in wenigstens zwei Kölner Zeitungen erfolgen muß. Die Gemeinde Bensberg haftet für die Einlösung. BENSBERG, den 10. August 1923. Der Bürgermeister: HEISS & Co KÖLN-LINDENTHAL. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 000 000 HEISS & Co KÖLN-LINDENTHAL. |
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Bensberg was a small town in the Bergisches Land east of Cologne, and like hundreds of German municipalities in the summer of 1923, its local government was forced into issuing its own emergency currency simply to meet payroll. The Reichsbank could not print fast enough. Heiss & Co. in Cologne-Lindenthal handled much of the notgeld output for smaller Rhineland communities during this period, which is why their work appears across dozens of otherwise unrelated municipal issues from the same frantic weeks.
The five-million mark denomination dates this note to the acute phase of the hyperinflation, before the November 1923 Rentenmark stabilization made the entire series worthless overnight.