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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Itzehoe (notgeld), City of |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 180 × 80 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeldschein der Stadt Itzehoe FUNFHUNDERTTAUSEND MARK zahlt die Stadthauptkasse in Itzehoe gegen Vorlage dieses Scheines dem Einlieferer. Dieser Schein kann jederzeit aufgerufen werden und verliert eine Woche nach erfolgter öffentlicher Bekanntmachung in hiesigen Tagesblattern seine Gültigkeit Itzehoe, den 11. August 1923 Der Stadtmagistrat Dieser Schein gilt als Zahlungsmittel. Wer ihn nachmacht oder verfälscht macht sich strafbar. |
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| Protection description | Stachelquadrate (spiked squares) watermark pattern, catalogued as Keller #88 |
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Itzehoe's 500,000 Mark notgeld falls squarely into the Weimar hyperinflation emergency issues of mid-1923, when municipal authorities across Germany were forced to print their own circulating currency simply to meet payroll. W. Gente in Hamburg was a regional commercial printer — not a specialist banknote firm — and the notgeld from smaller Schleswig-Holstein towns like Itzehoe often came off the same presses within days of each other, differing only in overprinted text and issuing authority.
The watermarked paper is worth noting: at this denomination, many comparable issues dispensed with security paper entirely. By the time 500,000 Mark felt like a serious sum to protect, it wasn't.