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500 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Stollberg i. E. |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein No Der Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Stollberg i. E. zahlt gegen Rückgabe dieses Gutscheines Fünfhundert Millionen Mark Der Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach erfolgtem Aufruf in den Blättern des Stollberger Bezirkes. Stollberg i. E., den 12. Oktober 1923. Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Stollberg i. E. Amtshauptmann. Bezirkskassierer. 500 MILLIONEN Der Gutscheine nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in den Verkehr bringt, wird strafrechtlich verfolgt. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, left entirely plain on the cream-coloured paper stock, with no text, vignette, or decorative element of any kind. |
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The Amtshauptmannschaft Stollberg was a rural administrative district in the Erzgebirge region of Saxony, and like hundreds of similar bodies across Weimar Germany in late 1923, it printed its own emergency currency — Notgeld — because the Reichsbank simply could not supply denominations large enough to function. By the time notes like this were issued, the half-billion Mark face value was barely sufficient for a loaf of bread. The Rats-Druckerei in Glauchau was a municipal press, not a specialist banknote printer, and the production quality reflects that.
The stabilization of the currency under the Rentenmark in November 1923 rendered the entire issue worthless within weeks of printing.