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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Landkreis Recklinghausen und die Städte Recklinghausen und Buer |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld des Landkreises Recklinghausen und der Städte Recklinghausen und Buer Fünfhunderttausend Mark zählen unsere Kommunalkassen dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines Recklinghausen, den 8. August 1923 Der Kreisausschuss des Landkreises Recklinghausen Der Magistrat der Stadt Recklinghausen Der Magistrat der Stadt Buer 500000 |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in brown on a cream ground, the reverse carries a central diamond-shaped vignette with crossed mining hammers and a miner's lamp above the legend "Glück auf", evoking the Ruhr coal-mining district. The denomination numeral "500000" appears in all four corners within ornamental guilloche rosettes. An authorisation line at the top and an invalidation clause at the foot frame the design. |
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Recklinghausen and neighboring Buer were in the thick of the Ruhr occupation crisis when this note was struck — French and Belgian troops had moved into the industrial region in January 1923 to enforce reparations deliveries, and the German government's policy of passive resistance had effectively paralyzed the regional economy. The Reichsbank could not keep pace with hyperinflation's acceleration, so local administrations — the Landkreis alongside the two municipalities — pooled authority to issue notgeld at denominations that would have been unthinkable even twelve months earlier.
The joint issuing arrangement between a rural district and two separate town administrations was administratively unusual and reflects genuine improvisation under pressure.