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5000 Mark
| Issuer | Bayerische Notenbank |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Multicolored guilloche underprint in rose and blue tones fills the main field, with the denomination in large Gothic blackletter script at centre. A right-hand panel in contrasting guilloche carries the numeral '5000' in bold letterpress with 'MARK' above. Multiple manuscript signatures appear below the issuer name, with issuance date and redemption notice in the side panel. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5000 BAYERISCHE 5000 MARK 5000 MARK NOTENBANK Nachahmung oder Veränderung wird nach Maßgabe des achten Abschnittes des Strafgesetzbuches für das Deutsche Reich bestraft (Translation: 5000 Bavarian 5000 Mark 5000 Mark Notenbank Imitation or alteration will be punished in accordance with the eighth section of the Penal Code for the German Reich) |
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The Bayerische Notenbank was one of four German state banks permitted to issue their own banknotes under the 1875 Banking Act — a federalist concession that persisted well into the Weimar period. This 5000 Mark note appeared as German inflation was accelerating sharply; within a year of this issue, the denomination would be economically trivial, and the Reichsbank's emergency printings would render all state bank notes increasingly irrelevant before their formal absorption into the unified currency system.
Bavaria's notes were printed locally rather than through the Reichsdruckerei in Berlin, which gives the series a regionally distinct production character uncommon among contemporary German inflationary issues.