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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirks-Sparkassa Traunstein |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed reverse in black on a pale green and brown guilloche underprint, with a bold outer border of parallel ruled lines and ornamental corner pieces with fan-like radiating designs. A central rectangular panel with a dotted border carries the denomination inscription and serial number, flanked on each side by large circular guilloche medallions. The overall layout is purely typographic with no pictorial vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | Gut-Schein über 500000 Mark 06940 Bezirkssparkasse Traunstein (Translation: Coupon for 500000 Marks 06940 District Savings Bank Traunstein) |
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Traunstein's Bezirks-Sparkassa was among hundreds of German savings institutions forced to issue emergency currency — Notgeld — as Reichsbank denominations fell catastrophically behind the pace of hyperinflation in 1923. By the time 500,000 Mark notes were being printed, that sum represented perhaps a day's wages at best. The district printer Ed. Leopoldseder handled the job locally, which was the point: speed mattered far more than security features.
The note belongs to the inflationary peak preceding the Rentenmark stabilization of November 1923, after which virtually all municipal Notgeld was called in and destroyed.