5 000 000 Mark Landstuhl, Bezirksamtsaußenstelle

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.