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500 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Pirmasens (City of Pirmasens) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 500 000 000 Marks (500 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN REIHE Bb 500 Millionen Mark Stadtgemeinde Pirmasens PIRMASENS DEN 25 SEPT. 23 DER ZEITPUNKT DER EINLÖSUNG WIRD ÖFFENTLICH BEKANNTGEMACHT. DAS BÜRGERMEISTERAMT WER GUTSCHEINE NACHMACHT ODER VERFÄLSCHT ODER SOLCHE SICH VERSCHAFFT UND IN VERKEHR BRINGT WIRD MIT ZUCHTHAUS NICHT UNTER 2 JAHREN BESTRAFT. ENTWURF S.SEMAR |
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| Reverse lettering | SCHUHHÄNDLERINNEN AUS ALT-PIRMASENS 500 |
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Pirmasens was a shoe-manufacturing town in the Palatinate, and by late 1923 it was printing emergency currency in denominations that would have been unthinkable eighteen months earlier. This 500-million-mark Notgeld was issued by the city government itself — not a bank — because the Reichsbank simply could not supply denominations large enough to meet daily wage payments during the peak of the hyperinflation. Municipal and district authorities across Germany assumed that role by necessity.
S. Semar's design credit is uncommon for Pirmasens Notgeld; most of the city's emergency issues from this period were produced with minimal typographic effort. A locally credited designer suggests this note received slightly more deliberate treatment than the purely functional pieces churned out in the same weeks.