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5 000 000 Mark Landkreis Krefeld
| Issuer | Landkreis Crefeld |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on pale buff paper with a pink-brown guilloche underprint. The upper and lower borders carry the issuer legend 'Landkreis Crefeld' in Gothic script on a dark ground, flanked on both sides by diagonal hatched ornamental panels. A central framed panel bears the denomination 'FÜNF MILLIONEN MARK' in bold block capitals, beneath which a four-line German text states the payment obligation, dated Crefeld, den 1. September 1923, followed by the series designation 'REIHE A', a serial number, and a manuscript signature of the Landrat. |
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| Obverse lettering | Landkreis Crefeld FÜNF MILLIONEN MARK Der Landkreis Crefeld zahlt bei seinen kommunalen Kassen dem Vorzeiger Fünf Millionen Mark. Der Zeitpunkt der Einlösung wird öffentlich bekanntgegeben. Crefeld, den 1. September 1923. Der Landrat: REIHE A |
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Landkreis Crefeld — note the spelling discrepancy between the issuing authority and the district's contemporary German orthography, which shifted between "Crefeld" and "Krefeld" during this period — was one of hundreds of German municipal and county bodies that issued emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923. By August of that year, the Reichsmark had collapsed so completely that local authorities were printing denominations in the millions simply to cover wages and daily transactions. The five-million-Mark face value, astronomical by any peacetime standard, was routine tender within weeks of issue.
Schwarzkopf is credited as designer, almost certainly a local commercial artist rather than a specialist banknote engraver.