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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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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a bold silhouette vignette in dark grey-black, set within a decorative letterpress border of interlocking foliate and club-shaped ornaments with oval medallions at the lateral margins. The central scene renders, in a flat Art Nouveau silhouette style, a group of seated figures at a café table being attended by an exotic turbaned servant, with a Swabian dialect verse printed in Gothic script across the upper register of the vignette panel. |
| 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.