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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Karlsruhe, City of |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Firm white paper with a grey/yellow underprint; text in black with the denomination and value rendered in white against dark panels. A six-digit serial number with flanking asterisk appears in black, and a dry embossed seal (Trockenstempel) is applied at the lower centre. The denomination figure appears in all four corners. |
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| Reverse description | Black and yellow letterpress impression on white paper, with four architectural vignettes arranged in the corners: the Gothic Tower (upper left), the Nassau Palace (upper right), the Durlach Gate (lower left), and the Ettlingen Gate (lower right). Elaborate Gothic-script lettering and ornamental guilloche scrollwork fill the central field, with the large numeral 500 000 set prominently in the lower centre. The text 'NUR MIT TROCKENSTEMPEL GÜLTIG' appears inverted along the bottom edge. |
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| Protection description | Sonntagfliesen embossed dry seal (Keller #163), applied to the lower centre of the obverse |
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