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5 000 000 Mark Kreis Wetzlar
| Issuer | Kreiskommunalkasse des Kreises Wetzlar |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | Scharfes Druckereien, Wetzlar, Germany |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a detailed letterpress vignette of a traditional half-timbered house (Fachwerkhaus) in Oberkleen, Kreis Wetzlar, rendered in a sketch-like illustrative style against a lightly shaded background. A caption in Gothic script along the right margin identifies the subject. An artist's signature appears in the lower left corner. |
| Reverse lettering | Fachwerkhaus in Oberkleen (Kr. Wetzlar) |
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Kreis Wetzlar was a rural administrative district in Hesse-Nassau, and like hundreds of German counties in the summer and autumn of 1923, its Kreiskommunalkasse — the district's communal treasury — was forced to print its own emergency currency when Reichsbank notes became functionally worthless faster than they could be shipped. The five-million mark denomination places this note in the mid-phase of the hyperinflation spiral, before denominations climbed into the billions and trillions by November of that year.
Scharfes Druckereien was a local Wetzlar printer, not a specialist security firm. That distinction matters: notgeld from district-level cashiers printed locally shows far less consistency in ink quality and paper stock than issues from municipal treasuries that contracted Frankfurt or Berlin printers.