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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Lennep |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Letterpress in black on a yellow and white underprint, with a vertical yellow band along the left margin bearing the inscription 'Landkreis Lennep'. The central area presents a scenic landscape vignette with a castle visible in the background, while the denomination '500 000' is set centrally, framed above and below by the word 'Mark' in bold Gothic lettering. |
| Reverse lettering | Landkreis Lennep | Mark | 500 000 | Mark |
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Lennep is a small town in the Bergisches Land region of western Germany, today absorbed into Remscheid. Like hundreds of German municipal and district authorities in 1923, the Kreisausschuss — the district committee — was forced into issuing its own emergency currency as the Reichsbank's printing capacity collapsed under hyperinflation. By the time 500,000-Mark notes were being struck at the local level, that figure was losing purchasing power almost daily.
Notgeld of this denomination tier, issued in the summer and autumn of 1923, was typically in circulation for only days or weeks before becoming functionally worthless.