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 | Stadt Nürnberg (City of Nuremberg) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 500 000 Mark (500 000) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| 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 | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | MARK 500000 MARK 500000 MARKS NOTGELD der Stadt Nürnberg Fünfhunderttausend Mark Zahlt die Stadthaupt-Kasse Nürnberg für diesen Schein NÜRNBERG, 11. AUGUST 1923 KÖRNER |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | FÜNFHUNDERTTAUSEND 500000 FÜNFHUNDERTTAUSEND E. NISTER, NÜRNBERG. |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Nürnberg's municipal administration — like dozens of German cities in 1923 — was forced to issue its own emergency currency as the Reichsbank's hyperinflationary spiral made centrally issued notes obsolete almost upon printing. This half-million Mark denomination, printed locally by E. Nister, reflects the summer-to-autumn acceleration: denominations that would have been unthinkable eighteen months earlier were now barely sufficient for daily transactions.
E. Nister was primarily a commercial printer and publisher, not a security printing house. That distinction matters — the notes were produced quickly, without the anti-counterfeiting infrastructure of specialist firms, because speed was the only thing that mattered.