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0.42 Goldmark Freistaat Preußen
| Uitgever | Preußischer Finanzminister (Prussian Minister of Finance) |
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| Jaar | 1923 |
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| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Paper |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Goldenrod guilloche underprint covers the entire note field, with a vertical ornamental panel at left. The heading 'Freistaat Preußen' is set in bold blackletter at top centre, flanked by a Prussian eagle vignette; the denomination '0,42 Goldmark' appears in large Gothic script below, with the dollar equivalency '= 1/10 Dollar nordamerikanischer Währung' in a smaller roman typeface. The redemption text, issuance date 'Berlin, den 3. November 1923', and the title 'Der Preußische Finanzminister' occupy the lower portion, accompanied by two circular official seals bearing the Prussian eagle, and a manuscript signature; the serial number is printed in red at upper left. |
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| Beveiligingstype | Watermark |
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| Opmerkingen |
The fractional Goldmark notes issued by the Prussian Finance Ministry in 1923 occupy a peculiar corner of Weimar-era emergency currency. As hyperinflation made conventional denominations meaningless, authorities experimented with gold-indexed paper — notionally pegged to a stable value rather than the collapsing Papiermark. The 0.42 Goldmark denomination is an odd fraction that reflects the conversion arithmetic in use at the time of printing rather than any intuitive monetary unit.
Prussia's decision to issue its own gold-denominated scrip, rather than wait for the Reichsbank's stabilization notes, speaks to the fiscal fragmentation of Weimar Germany, where individual states retained enough financial autonomy to print their own emergency instruments well into the crisis year.