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1000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Gotha (City of Gotha) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Green and dark red letterpress Notgeld on white paper, with an intricate guilloche underprint covering the entire field. The denomination "1000 M" appears in large bold type at upper right, with an ornate blackletter initial "E" at upper left introducing the value legend "Ein Tausend Mark" in Gothic script across the centre. A multi-line text block in Fraktur script details the accepting institutions and redemption conditions, dated "Gotha, den 8. Februar 1923", with the city arms vignette at lower right and the serial number prefix "A" and number at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Gotha Ein Tausend Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von allen städtischen Kassen in Zahlung genommen und von der Bank für Thüringen vorm. B. M. Strupp Akt.-Ges. Filiale Gotha, der Commers- und Privatbank Aktiengesellschaft Filiale Gotha, der Deutschen Bank Filiale Gotha, der Gewerbe- und Landwirtschaftsbank e. G. m. b. H. Gotha, dem Hofbankhaus Gebr. Goldschmidt und dem Hofbankhaus Max Mueller zur Gutschrift angenommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb 14 Tagen nach öffentlicher Aufforderung des Stadtdirektors zur Einlösung bei obigen Banken vorgelegt wird. Gotha, den 8. Februar 1923. Der Stadtdirektor Oberbürgermeister Hofbuchdruckerei Gotha |
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Gotha's municipal 1000 Mark note was issued deep into the hyperinflation spiral of 1923, when German cities and towns were forced to print their own emergency currency — Notgeld — simply to keep local commerce functioning. The Reichsbank could not produce denominations fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power, so thousands of municipal and commercial issuers stepped in.
The Hofbuchdruckerei was the court printing house in Gotha, a city with a long publishing and cartographic history, which gave this issue a slightly more competent production quality than many comparable Notgeld pieces from smaller municipalities scrambling to use whatever printer was available.