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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Neuwied |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into two main panels within a brown ornamental border carrying the legend NOTGELD DES KREISES NEUWIED at top and bottom. The left panel bears a large green underprint over which the denomination Fünfhunderttausend Mark is rendered in bold black Fraktur script, below which the issuing authority and date of issue appear in letterpress. To the right, a brown-tinted intaglio-style vignette presents a half-length portrait of Friedrich Graf zu Wied, founder of the city of Neuwied in 1653, captioned accordingly below, with the numeral 500000 repeated above and below the portrait. A decorative foliate cartouche at the far right encloses the numeral 500000, and the serial number appears in green at lower right. |
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| 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.