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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Bingen am Rhein (City of Bingen on the Rhine) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 500 000 Mark (500 000) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld printed in dark blue on cream paper by letterpress, with a yellow-ochre floral guilloche underprint and a decorative border of interlocking foliate and geometric ornamental rules framing the central text. The denomination 'Fünfhunderttausend Mark' is set in large blackletter type at centre, with the numeral '500 000 Mk.' repeated vertically along each lateral margin. The lower section carries the issuance date 'Bingen a. Rh., 6. August 1923', a hand-applied violet circular municipal seal, and a manuscript facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, consisting of plain cream paper with faint show-through of the obverse letterpress text and guilloche underprint visible in mirror image. No design elements, inscriptions, or security features are present on this side. |
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Bingen am Rhein was one of hundreds of German municipalities forced into emergency currency production during the hyperinflation of 1923, when Reichsbank notes were losing value faster than they could be printed and distributed. This 500,000 Mark note — an enormous sum just two years earlier, pocket change by the autumn of 1923 — was produced locally by L. J. Pennrich Nachf., a Bingen printing firm, which kept turnaround times short when denominations were being superseded within weeks.
The single security feature was an official municipal stamp, the authenticity of which rested entirely on administrative trust rather than any technical barrier to counterfeiting. Signed per procurationem by Lippert.