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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Fürth i.B. (City of Fürth) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 500 000 Mark (500 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADT FÜRTH i/B. Fünfhunderttausend Mark 500,000 Fünfhunderttausend Mark zahlt die Stadtkasse Fürth i/B. gegen diesen Schein dem Einlieferer Fürth, den 15. August 1923 Stadtrat: 3.Bürgermeister. Oberbürgermeister. 2.Bürgermeister. NOTGELD DER STADT FÜRTH i/B. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, left entirely blank in plain cream-coloured paper, with only faint show-through of the obverse impression visible through the thin paper stock. |
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Fürth was one of hundreds of German municipalities forced into emergency currency production during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsmark collapsed so rapidly that central supply could not keep pace with denominations large enough for daily transactions. By the time 500,000-Mark notes were being issued at the municipal level, a single loaf of bread could cost more than the total prewar annual wage of a skilled worker.
Three civic signatures — the Oberbürgermeister and both deputy mayors — were required to authenticate the issue, an unusual redundancy that likely reflected local legal requirements around municipal debt obligations rather than any particular security concern.