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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss Monschau (District Committee of Monschau) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | Jac. Weiss, Monjoie |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided Notgeld printed in green on cream paper within a decorative foliate border framing the entire note. The issuing authority "Kreis Monschau" appears in Gothic script across the top panel, with the denomination "Fünfhunderttausend Mark" in large blackletter type occupying the central field. A serial number prefix letter and four-digit numeral are positioned in the upper right, with the denomination value "500000" repeated vertically along both lateral margins; the lower portion carries a multi-line text body noting Reichsbank backing and validity conditions, an issuance date of 15. August 1923, the place name "Monschau," and a manuscript signature of the chairman of the district committee ("Der Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses"). |
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| Obverse lettering | Kreis Monschau Gutschein über Fünfhunderttausend Mark No C 500000 Dieser Gutschein ist durch Hinterlegung bei der Reichsbank gedeckt. Er wird von allen öffentlichen Kassen des Kreises Monschau in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit 4 Wochen nach Aufruf in sämtlichen Zeitungen des Regierungsbezirks Aachen. Monschau, den 15. August 1923. Der Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses: Druck von Jac. Weiss, Monjoie. |
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Monschau — known officially as Monjoie until 1918, when the French-derived name was dropped after the First World War — issued this note through its district committee during the hyperinflation of 1923, when municipal and district bodies across Germany were authorized to print emergency currency (Notgeld) simply to keep commerce functioning. By the time 500,000 Mark denominations were necessary, the Reichsmark was losing value faster than notes could be printed and distributed.
The printer, Jac. Weiss, was a local Monschau firm — genuinely local production, not a job sent to a major commercial press in Cologne or Berlin. That the town still used its old name "Monjoie" in the printer's imprint is a small but telling detail about how slowly administrative changes filtered into everyday commercial practice.