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1000 Mark
| Issuer | City of Bamberg |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 1000 Mark |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears a typeset voucher text issued by the City of Bamberg, with the denomination stated as Ein Tausend Mark in large letterpress type at centre. The heading reads Gutschein der Stadt Bamberg, with the place and date of issue, Bamberg im Oktober 1922, printed below. The overall layout is austere and utilitarian, characteristic of emergency currency issued during the German inflation period. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1000 |
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Bamberg's 1922 thousand-mark notgeld belongs to the hyperinflationary wave that forced German municipalities to issue emergency currency as the Reichsbank struggled to keep denominations relevant against collapsing purchasing power. By mid-1922, even large municipal issues were obsolescent within weeks of printing — a thousand marks bought less each day they circulated.
City-issued notgeld at this denomination sits in an awkward transitional moment: too large to be the collectible small-change notgeld of 1920–21, too small to matter by late 1923 when trillion-mark instruments were commonplace.