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5 000 000 Mark Deutsch-Luxemburgische Bergwerks- und Hütten-AG
| Issuer | Deutsch-Luxemburgische Bergwerks- und Hütten-Aktiengesellschaft, Abteilung Friedrich Wilhelms-Hütte |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 141 × 98 mm |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher printed in olive-green and rose-pink on paper, with a decorative letterpress border of interlocking geometric and foliate motifs enclosing the entire face. The denomination is stated in Gothic blackletter script as 'Fünf Millionen Mark' across the centre, with 'Gutschein über 5 000 000 Mark.' at the top in a smaller Gothic hand. Below the denomination, a three-line redemption clause in Gothic type is followed by the place and date of issue 'Mülheim-Ruhr, den 6. August 1923.', the issuing company name, the branch designation 'Abteilung Friedrich Wilhelms-Hütte', and two manuscript signatures beneath 'Serie E'; a vertically printed serial number in red appears on the left stub panel against a guilloche underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über 5 000 000 Mark. Fünf Millionen Mark Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit 14 Tage nach Aufruf in den Mülheimer Tageszeitungen und wird bis dahin bei allen Banken in Mülheim a. d. Ruhr eingelöst. Mülheim-Ruhr, den 6. August 1923. Deutsch-Luxemburgische Bergwerks- und Hütten-Aktiengesellschaft Abteilung Friedrich Wilhelms-Hütte. Serie E |
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Deutsch-Luxemburgische Bergwerks- und Hütten-AG was one of the great Ruhr industrial combines — coal, iron, steel — and like hundreds of large German employers during the hyperinflation peak of 1923, it issued its own emergency currency to pay workers when the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough physical notes fast enough. The Friedrich Wilhelms-Hütte division, located in Mülheim an der Ruhr, issued under its own departmental authority, which is why the issuer line reads as a subdivision rather than the parent company.
A 5,000,000 Mark denomination places this firmly in the late summer or autumn of 1923, when that figure represented roughly a day's wages — briefly.