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5 000 000 Mark Landesbank der Rheinprovinz
| Issuer | Landesbank der Rheinprovinz |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 131 × 90 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | FÜNF MILLIONEN MARK Die Landesbank der Rheinprovinz in Düsseldorf zahlt dem Vorzeiger Fünf Millionen Mark Der Zeitpunkt der Einlösung wird öffentlich bekanntgemacht. Düsseldorf, 20. August 1923. Landesbank der Rheinprovinz General-Direktion: Landesbank der Rheinprovinz |
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| Reverse lettering | LANDESBANK DER RHEINPROVINZ FÜNF MILLIONEN MARK MARK 5 000 000 MARK Bachem, Köln |
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The Landesbank der Rheinprovinz was not a commercial bank but a public-law credit institution serving the Rhineland provincial administration — its emergency currency issues during the 1923 hyperinflation were therefore backed, nominally, by provincial rather than Reich authority. By the time denominations reached the millions, the Reichsbank had effectively lost control of money supply, and regional bodies across Germany were printing their own Notgeld to keep wages moving.
J. P. Bachem was primarily a Catholic publishing house and printer based in Cologne, pulled into currency production by sheer local demand. Not a specialist security printer.