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5 000 000 Mark Kreis Rendsburg
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Rendsburg |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on firm, textured white paper. The design is executed in green and black, with a decorative border frame in black enclosing the central text block in green underprint. Partial text and denomination numerals appear in green, with the remaining lettering and frame elements rendered in black. |
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| Reverse description | Green and black on white paper, with a five-digit serial number printed in black at lower right. The central vignette, printed in green, presents a medallion portrait of Uwe Jens Lornsen in left profile, encircled by his name in Gothic lettering, set within an elaborate geometric and ornamental cross-pattern guilloche. Flanking panels carry symbolic regional motifs, while the right section bears the denomination in Gothic script — 'Fünf Millionen Mark' — alongside a circular Kreisausschuss seal and the five-digit serial number. |
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Rendsburg district issued this five-million mark note at the peak of the 1923 hyperinflation, when municipal and county administrations across Germany were legally permitted — and practically compelled — to print their own emergency currency (Notgeld) simply to keep wages payable. The Kreisausschuss, the elected county executive committee, held that authority locally. By the time notes of this denomination were necessary, the Reichsbank's own supply could not keep pace with the daily collapse in purchasing power.
The watermarked paper is notable — most district-level Notgeld at this stage of the crisis was printed on whatever stock was available, without security features. Its presence here suggests a relatively deliberate production rather than a rushed improvisation.