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300 000 Mark Marktsparkasse
| Issuer | Marktsparkasse Langquaid |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Zahlungsanweisung über Dreihunderttausend Mark Dieser Schein gelangt zur Ausgabe durch die unterfertigte Marktsparkasse unter der vollen Haftung durch die Marktgemeinde Langquaid. Langquaid, den 5. September 1923. Marktsparkasse Langquaid 1. BÜRGERMEISTER: KÄMMERER: 300000 |
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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.