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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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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note issued by the Kreiskommunalkasse des Kreises Wetzlar, bearing the text promise to pay the bearer five million Mark, dated 11 September 1923. The text states that the date of redemption will be publicly announced, and is authorised by the chairman and members of the Kreisausschuss. The printer's imprint of Scharfes Druckereien, Wetzlar, appears at the foot of the note. |
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| 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.