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300 000 Mark Marktsparkasse
| Issuer | Marktsparkasse Langquaid |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | Graphische Kunstanstalt Heinr. Schiele, Regensburg |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in blue on white paper, the obverse is dominated by a central text panel framed by an ornate scalloped and spiked guilloche border. The denomination 'Dreihunderttausend Mark' is set in large Gothic blackletter script beneath the heading 'Zahlungsanweisung über'. A body text in smaller script states the note is issued by the Marktsparkasse under the full guarantee of the Marktgemeinde Langquaid, dated 'Langquaid, den 5. September 1923'. Flanking the central panel are two vertical guilloche columns each bearing the numeral '300000', and a small circular vignette of a bearded figure appears between the two manuscript signatures below the issuer line. |
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| Reverse lettering | Langquais Rathaus. Rathaus 300.000 ENTWURF U. DRUCK DER GRAPHISCHEN KUNSTANSTALT HEINR. SCHIELE, REGENSBURG |
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Langquaid is a small market town in Lower Bavaria, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities in 1923, its local savings institution — the Marktsparkasse — was forced into the notgeld business simply to keep commerce moving. By mid-1923, Reichsbank notes were arriving in denominations so far behind actual prices that even a village sparkasse had to print its own emergency paper. The 300,000 Mark denomination places this squarely in the hyperinflation peak, when that figure represented roughly the cost of a loaf of bread for only days before it didn't.
Printed by Heinrich Schiele's graphic arts firm in Regensburg, a house that handled numerous regional Bavarian notgeld commissions that year.