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500 000 000 000 Mark Oberamt Leutkirch
| Issuer | Amtskörperschaft Leutkirch (Oberamtssparkasse Leutkirch) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 500 000 000 000 Mark (500 000 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | Amtskörperschaft Leutkirch Kassenschein 500 Milliarden Mark Fünfhundert Milliarden zahlt die Oberamtssparkasse Leutkirch dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines Leutkirch, den 20. August 1923. Oberamtmann Oberamtspfleger Sparkassendirektor Nachahmung oder Fälschung ist strafbar. SERIES A |
| Reverse description | The reverse is essentially unprinted, showing only the strong blind impression and show-through of the obverse design visible through the thin paper stock, with faint traces of the guilloche underprint and denomination numerals bleeding through; no deliberate reverse printing is present. |
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Leutkirch's Oberamtssparkasse was one of hundreds of German district savings institutions forced into emergency currency production during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsmark's collapse outpaced Berlin's ability to supply adequate denominations. By the time half-trillion Mark notes became necessary — a figure that would have been genuinely incomprehensible eighteen months earlier — local printers were handling the work, which accounts for the relatively crude production quality typical of late-stage Notgeld at this denomination level.
The Württemberg Oberämter (district offices) had administrative responsibility for their Sparkassen, making the Amtskörperschaft the legally correct issuing body even when the notes were physically produced and distributed through the savings bank counter.