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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 | 130 × 85 mm |
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| Obverse description | Cream-coloured note printed in dark green and black, with the issuer's name in spaced letterpress capitals along the top and bottom margins. The central field is enclosed within a heavy guilloche border of interlocking geometric patterns and carries the denomination in large bold Gothic letters — FÜNF MILLIONEN MARK — above a five-line payment text in Kurrent script. Flanking ornamental cartouches appear at left and right, and a manuscript signature of the General-Direktion appears below the text block; the serial number is printed vertically along the right edge. |
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| Reverse description | Cream-coloured note printed in dark green and black, with the issuer's name repeated in spaced letterpress capitals along the top and bottom margins. The central vignette, enclosed within a rectangular frame, presents an oval cartouche bearing the Prussian eagle underprint and the circular legend LANDESBANK DER RHEINPROVINZ, flanked on either side by allegorical standing figures in woodcut style. Circular seal impressions reading SIEGEL DER RHEINPROVINZ with an eagle device appear at left and right outside the main frame, and the numeral denomination 5,000,000 MARK is set in large bold type across the lower panel against a fine guilloche underprint. |
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The Landesbank der Rheinprovinz was one of dozens of regional German institutions that issued notgeld during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank could not print fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. By the time five-million-mark denominations entered circulation that summer, they were already functionally inadequate within days of issue — the inflation rate was doubling prices faster than new notes could reach the public.
Printed locally in Düsseldorf, this issue avoided the logistical bottlenecks that plagued centrally printed emergency currency during that period. The Rhineland's partial occupation by French and Belgian forces since 1921 added a layer of administrative complexity to any financial operations conducted from the region.