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5000 Mark Landesbank der Rheinprovinz
| Issuer | Landesbank der Rheinprovinz |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | L. Schwann, Düsseldorf, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | Landes-bank der Rhein-Provinz REIHE 1 Gutschein Die Landesbank der Rheinprovinz in Düsseldorf zahlt dem Vorzeiger Fünftausend Mark Der Zeitpunkt der Einlösung wird öffentlich bekannt gemacht. Düsseldorf, 1. Februar 1923 Landesbank der Rheinprovinz General-Direktion L. Schwann-Düsseldorf (Translation: Regional Bank of the Rhine Province / Series 1 Voucher / The Landesbank der Rheinprovinz in Düsseldorf pays the bearer / Five Thousand Mark / The date of redemption will be publicly announced. / Düsseldorf, 1 February 1923 / Landesbank der Rheinprovinz / General Directorate) |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central allegorical vignette in which two male figures flank a large German heraldic shield: a semi-nude classical figure on the left holds a staff bearing the Imperial German eagle, while an armoured medieval knight on the right displays the flag of the Rhineland province. Both figures rest one hand upon the shield, and the composition is surmounted by a crested helm with an eagle displayed, the whole enclosed within foliate and thread-like decorative work. Large oval cartouches containing the numeral 5,000 are placed in the left and right margins. |
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The Landesbank der Rheinprovinz was a provincial public bank serving the Rhineland, and its emergency currency issues of 1923 fall squarely within the Notgeld phenomenon driven by Germany's hyperinflationary collapse — by mid-1923, denominations that would have seemed absurd a year earlier were already obsolete within weeks of printing. L. Schwann was a Düsseldorf commercial printer, not a security printing specialist, which is why the embossed dry stamp was the primary authentication measure — a low-tech solution to an impossible situation.