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5 000 000 Mark Landkreis Bochum
| Issuer | Kreisausschuß des Landkreises Bochum |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Entirely printed in orange on cream paper, the reverse is dominated by a dense geometric guilloche border composed of repeating stylized motifs arranged in concentric rectangular bands. Within the central field, the numeral denomination "5 000 000 Mark" is printed in large bold type, flanked above by the authorization text noting issuance with approval of the Reichsminister der Finanzen, and below by a validity clause stating the note remains legal until the expiry of a period to be announced by official proclamation. |
| Reverse lettering | Ausgegeben mit Genehmigung des Reichsministers der Finanzen 5 000 000 Mark Dieser Schein bleibt gültig bis zum Ablauf der durch amtlichen Aufruf bekannt zu machenden Frist. |
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Issued by the rural district committee surrounding — but administratively distinct from — the city of Bochum, this note belongs to the most chaotic phase of Weimar hyperinflation, when municipal and county authorities across Germany printed their own emergency currency simply to meet payroll. By the time denominations reached the millions, the Reichsbank's supply chain had completely collapsed under the volume required, and local Notgeld ceased to be the stopgap measure it had been in 1921 and became the primary means of paying workers in the industrial Ruhr.
The Landkreis Bochum itself was a coal and steel district under French and Belgian occupation during much of 1923, following the Ruhr invasion of January that year — a pressure that accelerated local currency fragmentation well beyond what hyperinflation alone would have produced.