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1000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Heidelberg (City Municipality of Heidelberg) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Reverse lettering | STADT UND SCHLOSS HEIDELBERG MIT DEM KOMET VON 1618 ÜBER DEM SCHLOSS (IM THEATRUM EUROPAEUM) AELTESTE DARSTELLUNG DES HEIDELBERGER STADTSIEGELS NACH EINEM KUPFERSTICH VON MATTHÄUS MERIAN |
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| Protection description | An embossed dry seal (Trockenstempel) applied to the face of the note; validity is contingent upon the presence of this seal as stated in the obverse legend |
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Heidelberg's municipal administration was one of hundreds of German city governments forced to print their own emergency money as the Reichsbank lost control of the money supply in 1922. This is Notgeld in its inflationary phase — distinct from the decorative small-denomination Notgeld produced for collectors between 1919 and 1921. By late 1922, the city wasn't printing curiosities; it was trying to keep local wages payable.
The embossed dry seal was the municipality's primary authentication device, applied individually to each note — a labor-intensive method that couldn't scale with the printing volumes the inflation would soon demand.