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500 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Solingen (City of Solingen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 130 x 85 mm |
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| Obverse description | Grey typographic border with star-separated legends on all four sides; the central field carries a rose-tinted guilloche underprint over which the denomination appears in large Gothic numerals with series prefix '3A', and the value in words in bold Fraktur blackletter. Below, two lines of conditions text in italic script, date 'Solingen, 20 September 1923', circular city seal, and a manuscript signature of the Oberbürgermeister. A vertical panel at left repeats the validity and district circulation notice in upright Antiqua type. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Solingen über 500 000 000 Fünfhundert Millionen Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von allen Kassen der Stadtgemeinde Solingen eingelöst. Der Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit nach Aufkündigung in den Solinger Zeitungen. Solingen 20 September 1923 Umlaufsfähig im ganzen altbesetzten Teile des Regierungsbezirks Düsseldorf - Gültig bis zum 1. April 1924 (Translation: Voucher of the City of Solingen for 500,000,000 Five Hundred Million Marks This voucher is redeemable at all cash offices of the city municipality of Solingen. The voucher loses its validity after announcement in the Solingen newspapers. Solingen, September 20, 1923 Circulable throughout the entire formerly occupied parts of the Düsseldorf administrative district - Valid until April 1, 1924) |
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By late 1923, German municipal authorities were printing their own emergency currency — Notgeld — because Reichsbank denominations couldn't keep pace with hyperinflation fast enough to be useful. Solingen, a city built on steel and cutlery manufacturing, issued this 500-million-mark note through a local commercial printer rather than any central authority. The figures involved had become almost abstract: a loaf of bread in Germany that November could cost 200 billion marks.
Kunstanstalt Hermann Rabitz was a Solingen-based printing and graphic arts firm, which kept production entirely local — unusual even for municipal Notgeld, where out-of-town printers were common.