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500 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreis Moers (District of Moers) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | FÜNFHUNDERT·MILLIONEN·MARK KREIS 500 MOERS MILLIONEN·MARK Zahlbar bei sämtlichen kommunalen Kassen im Kreise Moers. Gültig noch 6 Monate nach erfolgter Aufkündigung in den im Kreise Moers erscheinenden Zeitungen. MOERS, DEN 22. SEPTEMBER 1923. Der Landrat i.V. Umlaufsfähig im ganzen linksrheinischen Teile des Regierungsbezirks Düsseldorf. Gültig bis 1. April 1924. NOTGELD KREIS MOERS |
| Reverse description | Plain brown and blue letterpress reverse with a bold Gothic-script heading 'Notgeld Kreis Moers' at the top of the inner scalloped frame. The denomination '500 Millionen Mark' is set in large blue Fraktur type occupying the centre field, with a calligraphic flourish below. A single line of authorisation text in Gothic script runs across the lower portion of the inner panel. The right margin repeats the lozenge-shaped cartouche with the denomination in blue overprint, matching the obverse layout. Corner ornaments in diamond frames and a wavy-line guilloche border complete the typographic design. |
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Kreis Moers, like hundreds of German municipal and district authorities in 1923, was forced into the notgeld business by necessity — the Reichsbank simply could not print denominations fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation. By September and October of that year, half-billion Mark values were not remarkable; they were functional grocery money. Districts issued their own emergency currency because waiting for Berlin meant commerce stopped entirely.
Local printing on this scale — district-level, rushed, often on whatever paper stock was available — means quality varies considerably across surviving examples from Moers. The paper itself sometimes shows the strain.