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| Issuer | Reichsbank |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typographically spare obverse printed on cream paper with a pale green guilloche underprint panel at left, where the red serial number is overprinted vertically. The denomination "Fünf Millionen Mark" is set in a bold black Gothic (Fraktur) typeface below the heading "Reichsbanknote", followed by the body text of the promise-to-pay clause and the issue date "Berlin, den 25. Juli 1923". Two circular Reichsbank Direktorium seals bearing the Imperial eagle flank a block of facsimile committee signatures at the foot, while the anti-counterfeiting warning runs in vertical text along the right margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Reichsbanknote Fünf Millionen Mark zahlt die Reichsbankhauptkasse in Berlin gegen diese Banknote dem Einlieferer. Vom 1. September 1923 ab kann diese Banknote aufgerufen und unter Umtausch gegen andere gesetzliche Zahlungsmittel eingezogen werden Berlin, den 25. Juli 1923 Reichsbankdirektorium Wer Banknoten nachmacht oder verfälscht, oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter zwei Jahren bestraft |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a repetitive typographic pattern of the numeral denomination printed in interlocking chain-link units that form a continuous guilloche-style lattice across the entire surface, serving simultaneously as a decorative underprint and an anti-counterfeiting device. The design is intentionally an inversion of the obverse layout, with the numeral motifs visible in mirror orientation when the note is held to the light. |
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