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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Elberfeld (City of Elberfeld) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Elberfeld 500000 Mark Gutschein. Die städtischen Kassen der Stadt Elberfeld zahlen gegen diesen Gutschein die Summe von Fünfhunderttausend Mark. Der Zeitpunkt der Einlösung wird öffentlich bekannt gemacht. Elberfeld, den 3. August 1923. Nr. Der Oberbürgermeister R. L. Friderichs & Co., G. m. b. H., Elberfeld. |
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| Protection type | Dry seal |
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| Comments |
Elberfeld was an independent city in the Bergisches Land industrial district when it issued this note in 1923 — it would be absorbed into the newly created city of Wuppertal just two years later, in 1929, making all Elberfeld municipal emergency money a dead series by definition. The 500,000 Mark denomination places this squarely in the mid-hyperinflation window, before the zeroes multiplied into the billions and trillions of that autumn.
R. L. Friderichs & Co. was a local Elberfeld printer, not a specialist security firm, which is why the only authentication measure is a dry embossed seal — typical of the resource constraints municipalities faced when printing Notgeld at volume and speed.