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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtverwaltung Schweinfurt (City Administration of Schweinfurt) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | Universitätsdruckerei H. Stürtz AG, Würzburg, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | 500000 M. Fünfhunderttausend Mark zahlt die Hauptkasse der Stadtverwaltung Schweinfurt dem Ueberbringer gegen diesen Schein Schweinfurt, den 13. August 1923 Der Stadtrat: Wer dieses Notgeld nachmacht oder Gefälschtes in Verkehr bringt wird strafrechtlich verfolgt. H. Stürtz A.G. Würzburg |
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| Reverse lettering | 500000 Mark |
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Schweinfurt's municipal administration issued this note during the most acute phase of Germany's hyperinflation — by mid-1923, the Reichsbank could not print fast enough, and thousands of local authorities, businesses, and transport companies issued their own emergency currency (Notgeld) to keep commerce moving at all. A 500,000 Mark denomination, unthinkable two years earlier, was already losing purchasing power within days of issue.
H. Stürtz in Würzburg was a serious academic press, not a jobbing printer — their involvement points to the better-produced end of the Notgeld spectrum, where municipal pride occasionally overrode the purely functional.