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500 000 000 Mark Landkreis Grevenbroich
| Issuer | Landkreis Grevenbroich (District of Grevenbroich) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | 500 Millionen Mark Landkreis Grevenbroich Gutschein über Fünfhundert Millionen Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von allen öffentlichen Kassen im Landkreis Grevenbroich in Zahlung genommen. Grevenbroich, 5. Okt. 1923 Namens des Kreisausschusses Der Landrat : Umlaufsfähig im ganzen altbesetzten Teile des Regierungsbezirks Düsseldorf. Gültig bis zum 1. April 1924. (Translation: 500 Million Marks District of Grevenbroich Voucher for Five Hundred Million Marks This voucher will be accepted by all public treasuries in the District of Grevenbroich. Grevenbroich, Oct. 5, 1923 On behalf of the District Committee The District Administrator: Circulable throughout the entire formerly occupied part of the Düsseldorf administrative region. Valid until April 1, 1924.) |
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| Reverse lettering | Mark 500 Millionen Mark (Translation: Mark 500 Million Mark) |
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Grevenbroich's 500-Million-Mark note dates from the autumn of 1923, when German hyperinflation had outpaced any central authority's ability to supply adequate currency. District and municipal governments across the Rhineland printed their own Notgeld not as a political gesture but out of raw necessity — wages had to be paid, and the Reichsbank simply could not ship denominations fast enough to keep up with prices that were doubling within days.
B. Kühlen was a well-established commercial printer in Mönchengladbach, pressed into currency production alongside dozens of regional firms that year. By November 1923, the 500-Million-Mark face value was already obsolete before the ink dried.