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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Der Rat der Stadt Freital |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on cream paper stock with an elaborate ornamental border of interlocking guilloche rosettes and foliate cartouches framing the entire note. At centre-top, the city arms of Freital — a shield bearing a sailing vessel, crossed tools, and a cogwheel, wreathed in laurel — serves as the principal vignette, surmounted by the motto banner 'FLEISS UND FORTSCHRITT'. The denomination 'Fünfhunderttausend' is set in large bold typeface below the vignette, with the issuing authority 'DER RAT DER STADT FREITAL', issue date of 10 August 1923, and the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature printed below the payment obligation text; a red serial number appears to the right. |
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| Obverse lettering | REIHE A M. 500 000 FLEISS UND FORTSCHRITT Gutschein über Mark Fünfhunderttausend Gegen Rückgabe dieses Scheines zahlt die Stadt Freital den Betrag von Fünfhunderttausend Mark. – Freital, den 10. August 1923. DER RAT DER STADT FREITAL Bürgermeister Gutschein, zugelassen vom Reichsfinanzministerium |
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Freital itself was barely two years old when this note was printed — the city was created in 1921 by merging the industrial communities of Döhlen, Deuben, and Potschappel, primarily to consolidate the local coal and chemical works into a single administrative unit. That the new municipality was already issuing half-million Mark emergency currency by 1923 tells you everything about the velocity of hyperinflation that summer.
Pässler's Dresden-Neustadt shop handled Notgeld work for several Saxon municipalities during the crisis period. Quick turnaround, not fine printing.