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500 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Danzig (City of Danzig) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 500 000 000 Marks (500 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | 500 Millionen Schopenhauer Notgeldſchein der Stadtgemeinde Danzig Fünfhundert Millionen Mark Deutſche Reichswährung. Danzig, den 26. September 1923 Der Senat Verwaltung der Stadtgemeinde Danzig DANZIG STADT DANZIG 500 MILLIONEN MARK |
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| Reverse lettering | 500 Millionen Mark deutſche Reichswährung Dieſer Notgeldſchein wird ungütlig, wenn er nicht inner- halb zweier Wochen nach Aufforderung des Senats, Verwaltung der Stadtgemeinde Danzig, bei der Städtiſchen Kämmereikaſſe Danzig eingelöſt wird. |
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Danzig's hyperinflation notgeld occupies a peculiar corner of Weimar-era emergency currency. The Free City of Danzig, technically outside the German Reich but sharing its economic collapse, ran its own inflationary spiral in 1923 — municipal authorities issuing denominations that would have been unthinkable eighteen months earlier. By the time nine-zero figures appeared on paper, the printing kept pace with depreciation only in the loosest sense.
The "Printed: 30.04.1945" field in this catalog entry almost certainly reflects a data entry error — that date is the day Hitler died in Berlin, well after Danzig had fallen to Soviet forces. Treat that field with skepticism.