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5 000 000 Mark Landstuhl, Bezirksamtsaußenstelle
| Issuer | Bezirksamtsaußenstelle Landstuhl (Bayer. Bezirksamt Kaiserslautern, Außenstelle Landstuhl) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain white paper Gutschein (emergency note) printed in black letterpress on a horizontal format. The upper portion carries the issuing authority title in Gothic typeface, with the denomination in numeral and written form arranged centrally; a circular official seal of the Bayer. Bezirksamt Kaiserslautern, Außenstelle Landstuhl, bearing the Bavarian lozenge arms, is impressed to the left of centre. A handwritten authorization signature appears below the date line, and a violet 'Ungültig' (invalid) cancellation overprint is applied diagonally across the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | Dieser Gutschein kann ab 1. Oktober 1923 eingelöst werden und verliert ab 1. November 1923 seine Gültigkeit. Bezirksamtsaußenstelle Landstuhl. Gutschein 5,000,000 Mk. No. 778 Fünf Millionen Mark Landstuhl, den 13. August 1923. Bezirksamtsaussenstelle: BAYER. BEZIRKSAMT KAISERSLAUTERN AUSSENSTELLE LANDSTUHL Für ausgegebene Gutscheine ist volle Deckung vorhanden. Ungültig |
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Landstuhl in 1923 sat in the Rhenish Palatinate, a region under French occupation following the Treaty of Versailles — which complicated the logistics of emergency currency issuance considerably. This note was authorized not by a full Bezirksamt but by an Außenstelle, a subordinate field office of the Kaiserslautern district authority, reflecting how administrative functions had been fragmented under the occupation regime. That a branch office was printing five-million-mark notes speaks directly to how fast the hyperinflation was outpacing institutional capacity.