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1000 Reichsmark Reichsbanknote
| Issuer | Reichsbank |
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| Year | 1924 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Reichsbanknote Tausend Reichsmark Ausgegeben auf Grund des Bankgesetzes vom 30. August 1924. Berlin, den 11. Oktober 1924 Reichsbankdirektorium 1000 |
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| Reverse lettering | Reichsbanknote Tausend Reichsmark 1000 Wer Banknoten nachmacht oder verfälscht oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter zwei Jahren bestraft. |
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The Rentenmark stabilization of late 1923 ended the hyperinflation, but the Reichsbank needed a credible high-denomination note for interbank and commercial settlement once the new currency regime took hold. This 1000 Reichsmark note was part of that recovery issue — a denomination that would have been laughably inadequate just months earlier, when a trillion-paper-mark note still couldn't buy a loaf of bread.
Reichsdruckerei had the capacity and the engraving tradition to produce serious currency, and by 1924 was back to printing on properly sourced cotton stock with functional watermark security — a meaningful contrast to the emergency wartime and inflation-era issues that had cut every corner available.