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1000 Mark Württembergische Notenbank
| Issuer | Württembergische Notenbank |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S981 |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Württembergische Notenbank bezahlt jedem Inhaber gegen Rückgabe dieser Banknote Tausend Mark REICHSWÄHRUNG Stuttgart, den 1. September 1922 DER VORSTAND Für die Kontrolle: Tausend Mark |
| Reverse description | Dark brown on cream paper, with a large diamond-shaped vignette at centre bearing the bold numeral '1000' against a dotted ground within the central lozenge and the word 'Mark' in Gothic script below, surmounted by a deer vignette at the apex. The issuer's name appears in bold serif capitals along the upper margin, accompanied by the bank's circular monogram seal in the upper right field, while two red serial numbers are printed vertically in the left and right margins. A fine geometric guilloche border frames the entire composition, with a statutory forgery-warning text running along the lower margin. |
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The Württembergische Notenbank was one of four German private note-issuing banks — alongside the Bayerische Notenbank, Sächsische Bank, and Badische Bank — that retained the right to issue currency alongside the Reichsbank under the German Banking Act of 1875. By 1922, that arrangement was being stretched to breaking point. Inflation was accelerating fast enough that a 1000 Mark denomination, which would have been extraordinary before the war, was rapidly becoming inadequate for ordinary transactions.
The bank's note-issuing privilege was formally extinguished in 1935 under Third Reich financial centralization.