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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Neuwied |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 500 000 Mark (500 000) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large green and brown central panel enclosed within a brown ornamental frame. A diamond-shaped vignette at centre contains a detailed topographic view of Neuwied with a stone bridge in the foreground, a river, and wooded hillside with a castle ruin in the background, all rendered in fine brown letterpress. The numeral 500000 appears in white at each corner of the green field and on a brown ribbon banner at the lower centre. A decorative foliate cartouche at the far left mirrors that of the obverse. Anti-counterfeiting legends run in brown letterpress above and below the central panel. |
| Reverse lettering | EINLÖSUNG ERFOLGT NACH ÖFFENTLICHER BEKANNTGABE. 500000 NACHAHMUNGEN WERDEN GESETZMÄSSIG VERFOLGT. |
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Neuwied's Kreisausschuss was one of hundreds of German district administrations forced into emergency currency printing during the hyperinflation of 1923, when Reichsbank notes became worthless faster than they could be physically printed and distributed. This 500,000 Mark denomination — enormous by any prewar standard — was routine by mid-1923, when a single postage stamp required similar sums. The Raiffeisen-Druckerei, a press with cooperative agricultural roots, was a purely local operation pressed into notgeld production by circumstance rather than expertise.
The Kreis Neuwied issues are not among the more elaborately produced district notgeld of the period — no engraved vignettes, no specialist security printing.