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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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| Value | 5 000 000 Mark (5 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned note printed on plain paper with a fine guilloche underprint at centre. The denomination 'FÜNF MILLIONEN MARK' is set in bold letterpress at the top and bottom borders, with the issuer's name running vertically along the right margin. A heraldic shield vignette of the Rhineland province appears in the upper right corner. The central text block carries the place and date of issue, the promise-to-pay clause, the issuing authority, and the General-Direktion's manuscript signature alongside the printed serial number. |
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| Reverse description | Plain brown-toned reverse with a central guilloche underprint vignette surrounded by decorative floral cornerpieces. The denomination 'FÜNF MILLIONEN MARK' is printed in large bold capitals across the centre in three lines. The issuer's name 'LANDESBANK DER RHEINPROVINZ' runs across the top border, with the numeral value '5 000 000' flanked by 'MARK' at the bottom. The Rhineland provincial heraldic shield appears in each of the four corners, and the printer's imprint 'Bachem, Köln' is set at the foot of the note. |
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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.