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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Bautzen |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 157 × 98 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green and cream Notgeld voucher on plain paper with an ornate guilloche border framing the entire note. The denomination "500 000" is printed in large bold numerals at upper centre, flanked by the word "Gutschein" at left and the validity inscription at upper right, while a broad central panel in Gothic blackletter script carries the denomination in full as "Fünfhunderttausend Mark" over a lightly printed guilloche underprint. Below, a text line states the redemption obligation of the Bezirkskasse, followed by the place and date "Bautzen, am 22. August 1923" and the issuing authority, with two manuscript signatures of the Amtshauptmann and Bezirkskassierer at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein 500 000 gültig im Bezirk der Amtshauptmannschaft Bautzen Fünfhunderttausend Mark zahlt die Bezirkskasse gegen Rückgabe dieses Gutscheines Bautzen, am 22. August 1923 Der Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Bautzen Amtshauptmann Bezirkskassierer |
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The Amtshauptmannschaft Bautzen was a Saxon administrative district, and like hundreds of similar bodies across Germany in 1923, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — as the Reichsbank's supply of usable denominations collapsed under hyperinflation. By the time notes at this face value were being printed, the 500,000 Mark figure was already losing practical meaning within weeks of issue; some Saxon district notes were rendered obsolete before distribution networks could move them.
Locally printed Notgeld at this scale tends to show considerable variation in ink quality and registration between surviving examples.