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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 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. |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents the complete obverse design as a mirror-image impression showing through the thin paper stock, with no independently printed design elements; the green ink of the obverse lettering and border is visible in reverse orientation, confirming the note was printed on one side only. |
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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.