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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Dillingen an der Donau (City of Dillingen an der Donau, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in black on a cream-coloured paper with a salmon-pink guilloche underprint of interlocking oval rosette patterns filling the entire field. A decorative border composed of alternating diamond and dot motifs frames the design on all sides. The denomination is stated in bold blackletter Gothic script as 'Mk. 500,000' and spelled out as 'Fünfhunderttausend Mark', below which a vignette of the Dillingen townscape appears in salmon-pink, flanked by two manuscript signatures above the redemption clause and the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | BISCHOFL. KLERIKALSEMINAR IN DILLINGEN VOM JAHRE 1627. FACIES Exterior Collegij S. HIERONYMI |
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| Comments |
Dillingen an der Donau was a modest Swabian town with no particular banking infrastructure, which made it typical of the hundreds of German municipalities forced to print their own emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923. By the time denominations like this reached 500,000 Mark, the Reichsbank's supply of centrally issued notes had simply failed to keep pace with wages — local employers needed physical paper to meet weekly payrolls, and city governments stepped in as issuers of last resort.
Veduta-Druck was a local press, and it shows. The production quality of municipal Notgeld at this denomination tier was rarely sophisticated.