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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinden Böblingen und Sindelfingen (Cities of Böblingen and Sindelfingen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 500 000 Mark (500 000) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Stadtkassen-Schein (municipal treasury note) printed in dark blue-grey on plain cream paper, with a fine dotted guilloche border running the full perimeter. The heading reads 'Stadtgemeinden Böblingen und Sindelfingen' above the note type designation, with the denomination 'Fünfhunderttausend Mark' in large bold blackletter type occupying the central band; the numeral 'Mk. 500000' appears below flanked by the small heraldic shields of Böblingen and Sindelfingen. The issue date '20. August 1923' is printed centrally in letterpress, with a red serial number and four manuscript signatures of the Stadtschultheiß and Stadtpfleger of each city arranged symmetrically at lower left and right. |
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| Reverse lettering | A Schwob kommt noch Endien nei - Der fahrt en Kalkutta ei - Und frögt en beam Wirtshaus nö: - Ihr Leut - ischt koi Böblenger dö? Dö schreit so a endischer Denger: - ha nöi - aber o Sendelfenger! |
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A joint issue from two neighboring Württemberg towns — Böblingen and Sindelfingen — produced during the catastrophic hyperinflation of 1923, when municipal and district authorities across Germany were legally permitted to issue emergency money (Notgeld) to compensate for the Reichsbank's inability to keep currency in circulation at pace with collapsing purchasing power. By August and September of that year, denominations that would have seemed absurd eighteen months earlier were routine.
The co-issuing arrangement between two separate municipalities on a single note is relatively uncommon in the Notgeld record, even for this period.