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5 000 000 Mark Kreis Grimmen
| Issuer | Kreiskommunalkasse Grimmen |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 146 × 91 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed on thin smooth white paper with a light brown letterpress impression; the border and text are rendered in black with a ruled rectangular frame. A circular violet ink stamp appears at the lower left, and a five-digit serial number in black, followed by an asterisk, is positioned to the right. |
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| Protection description | Verschlungene Quadrate (Keller#160) |
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Grimmen is a small town in Pomerania, and its district treasury had no business printing five-million-mark notes under normal circumstances. By mid-1923, it had no choice. The Reichsbank's central supply of emergency currency had completely broken down under hyperinflation, and local authorities across Germany were authorized — sometimes simply compelled — to issue their own Notgeld to keep wages and commerce moving. The Kreis Grimmen notes belong to this frantic third phase of German emergency currency, distinct from the souvenir-oriented Notgeld of 1920–21.
The watermarked paper suggests procurement from a commercial printer with existing stock rather than a purely improvised production run.