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5000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreiskommunalverband Moers (District of Moers) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in black on plain paper with a fine guilloche underprint in violet-grey. The issuer's name "Kreis Moers" appears at the top in Gothic blackletter script, with the denomination "Fünftausend Mark" set in large display blackletter type below. The body of the note carries a multi-line redemption text in Fraktur script, with the date "Moers, den 15. Februar 1923" at lower left, a manuscript signature to the right above the title "Der Landrat:", and a circular official stamp of the Landrat des Kreises Moers at lower right. A serial number appears in the upper right corner, and a final authorization line reads "Ausgefertigt mit Genehmigung des Reichsfinanzministeriums" along the bottom. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in violet-brown on plain paper, the reverse carries a central oval vignette with the heraldic lion of the County of Moers (Wappenlöwe der Grafschaft Moers) set against a finely engraved guilloche background, encircled by the inscription "Wappenlöwe der Grafschaft Moers". Four heraldic shield vignettes are placed in the corners, representing municipalities within the Kreis Moers. The issuer name "Kreis Moers" and denomination "Fünftausend Mark" are overprinted in large Gothic blackletter script across the centre, with a diamond-pattern border frame enclosing the entire design. |
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The Kreiskommunalverband Moers issued this note during the catastrophic German hyperinflation of 1923, when municipal and district authorities across the Rhineland scrambled to produce emergency currency — Notgeld — because Reichsbank notes were arriving too slowly to keep pace with daily price increases. The occupied Rhineland added a particular layer of difficulty: French and Belgian troops had moved into the Ruhr in January 1923, and local administrations were simultaneously managing occupation friction and monetary collapse.
District-level issues like this one were printed locally and typically had circulation lives measured in days before the denomination became functionally worthless. The 5,000 Mark figure, enormous by 1922 standards, was already inadequate within weeks of issue.