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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Hattingen-Ruhr |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 500 000 Mark (500 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | FÜNFHUNDERTTAUSEND MARK * FÜNFHUNDERTTAUSEND MARK Notgeld der Stadt Hattingen-Ruhr Reihe B Fünfhunderttausend Mark zahlen die städtischen Kassen dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines. Hattingen, den 10. August 1923. Der Magistrat der Stadt Hattingen-Ruhr FUNFHUNDERTTAUSEND MARK * FÜNFHUNDERTTAUSEND MARK |
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| Signature(s) | Birkenstock and Mriey |
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Hattingen-Ruhr was one of hundreds of German municipalities forced into emergency currency production during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank's output simply could not keep pace with denominations climbing toward the astronomical. City administrations, savings banks, and industrial firms all printed their own Notgeld to meet payroll and basic commerce — legal under the circumstances, if chaotic in aggregate.
The half-million Mark face value places this note squarely in the mid-1923 wave, before the autumn months pushed denominations into the billions. Birkenstock's countersignature alongside Mriey suggests dual authorization from the Magistrat, the standard civic accountability mechanism for municipally issued emergency paper.