Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
500,000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtbank Glogau |
|---|---|
| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Rectangular |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Brown and light blue letterpress note with a central guilloche underprint incorporating a stylized eagle vignette. The denomination 'Fünfhunderttausend Mark' is set in large Gothic blackletter script across the centre, with series letter B and a serial number to the right. The heading 'GLOGAUER STADTBANK-NOTE' runs along the top border, while the right margin carries a vertical brown panel with the numeral '500000' in large outlined figures. The date 'den 4. August 1923' and issuing authority text appear in the lower central field, followed by multiple manuscript signatures of the Magistrat. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Kreuzfliesen (cross-tile) pattern watermark embedded in the paper stock. |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Glogau's Stadtbank was one of hundreds of German municipal and regional institutions authorized to issue emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank simply could not print fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. At the peak, denominations jumped by factors of ten within weeks. A 500,000 Mark note, which would have represented a fortune in 1920, was by mid-1923 barely sufficient for a loaf of bread.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott A.G. was a Glogau-based printer with a long history in commercial and fine printing — the note was produced locally, which was logistically necessary given the sheer volume of notgeld being turned out across Germany that year.