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1000 Mark
| Issuer | Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (Finanzdeputation) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 1000 Marks |
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| Obverse lettering | Aushilfsschein der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg Tausend Mark 1000 Dieser Aushilfsschein wird von allen hamburgischen staatlichen Kassen und den Banken in Hamburg in Zahlung genommen. Die Finanzdeputation: Hamburg, den 1. Jan. 1923 Die Hauptstaatskasse: FINANZDEPUTATION HAMBURG |
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| Reverse lettering | 1000 MARK H. O. PERSIEHL, HAMBURG |
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Hamburg's Finanzdeputation issued this note during the catastrophic hyperinflation of 1923, when municipal and regional authorities across Germany were legally permitted — then eventually forced — to issue their own emergency currency, Notgeld, to keep commerce functioning as Reichsbank output failed to keep pace with price velocity. By mid-1923, 1,000 Mark had become a trivial sum; notes like this one were often obsolete before they could be fully distributed.
H. O. Persiehl was a Hamburg-based printer with an established commercial relationship with the city's financial administration, which is why local production was both practical and fast. The guilloche underprint was a minimal concession to security in circumstances where counterfeiting was largely pointless — inflation was outpacing any fraudulent gain within days.