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5 000 000 Mark provincial joint issue of Handelskammer, Landwirtschaftskammer and Handwerkskammer Hannover
| Issuer | Handelskammer, Landwirtschaftskammer and Handwerkskammer Hannover (joint issue) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Grey and gold on light paper. Two large Prussian eagle vignettes in gold underprint dominate the upper and lower halves of the reverse, providing an ornate heraldic backdrop. A central text panel in letterpress sets out the payment obligation in German, stating validity for two weeks after call-in and dated Hannover, 15. August 1923. Four issuing institutions are named in the surrounding text — Landesbank der Provinz Hannover, Girozentrale Hannover, Vereinigung Niedersächsischer Handelskammern / Handelskammer zu Hannover, and Landwirtschaftskammer für die Provinz Hannover — each accompanied by manuscript facsimile signatures. A further inscription at lower centre reads 'Die Handwerkskammern der Provinz Hannover' with two additional facsimile signatures. The border repeats the same regional town names as the obverse. |
| Reverse lettering | 5 MILLIONEN MARK Landesbank der Provinz Hannover Girozentrale Hannover zahlen wir gegen Einlieferung dieses Gutscheines; er behält seine Gültigkeit bis zum Ablauf von 2 Wochen nach Aufruf Hannover, den 15. August 1923. Vereinigung Niedersächsischer Handelskammern Handelskammer zu Hannover Landwirtschaftskammer für die Provinz Hannover Die Handwerkskammern der Provinz Hannover GÖTTINGEN GOSLAR HANNOVER HARBURG BIELEFELD DETMOLD GEESTEMÜNDE HILDESHEIM LÜNEBURG MINDEN VERDEN STADTHAGEN OSNABRÜCK OLDENBURG |
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A joint emergency issue by three Hanover chambers — trade, agriculture, and crafts — acting together under the provisions that allowed non-bank bodies to print notgeld during the hyperinflation peak of 1923. The involvement of J. C. König & Ebhardt, a long-established Hanover printing house, was entirely practical: they were local, capable, and already producing commercial stationery for the very institutions signing the note.
The five-million mark denomination, astronomical by any prior standard, was already losing purchasing power within days of issue.