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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Pasing (City of Pasing) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The left portion of the note is set against a pale field carrying a light red underprint of the Pasing municipal coat of arms, while the right panel bears a bold vertical numeral "500 000" rendered in an ornate Fraktur ribbon-scroll design printed in black. The denomination text "Fünfhunderttausend Mark" is set in large Gothic Fraktur blackletter across the centre, with the issuing authority "Notgeld der Stadt Pasing" above it in matching letterpress typography. A three-line validity clause in Kurrent script, the date "Pasing, am 17. August 1923," a manuscript signature above the title "1. rechtskundiger Bürgermeister," and a serial number within a decorative cartouche are arranged in the lower left field. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD der STADT PASING über Fünfhunderttausend MARK Die Zeit des Ablaufs der Giltigkeit dieses Scheines und das Erlöschen jeden Anspruchs gegenüber der Stadtkasse Pasing wird öffentlich bekanntgemacht. Pasing, am 17. August 1923. 1. rechtskundiger Bürgermeister. A. MEINDL, MÜNCHEN-PASING |
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Pasing was an independent municipality southwest of Munich — it would only be absorbed into the city of Munich in 1938. Like hundreds of German towns during the hyperinflation of 1923, it issued its own emergency currency, Notgeld, when the Reichsbank's notes lost purchasing power faster than they could be printed. A 500,000 Mark denomination sounds extraordinary, but by mid-1923 it barely covered a tram fare.
A. Meindl was a local Munich-Pasing printer, not a specialist banknote firm. That matters: quality control and paper consistency varied considerably across Meindl's Notgeld output for this series.