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500 000 Mark

Issuer Der Magistrat der Stadt Dortmund (for the Stadt- und Landkreise Dortmund und Hörde)
Year 1923
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Obverse description The left third of the note is occupied by a bold Expressionist-style vignette in warm earth tones, portraying a stylized male worker's face in close-up, with industrial smokestacks and factory buildings rendered in the background. To the right, the denomination "Fünfhundert Tausend Mark" is set in large blackletter (Fraktur) script against a grey guilloche underprint, followed by a payment obligation text in smaller Fraktur, the issue date of 16 Juli 1923, and the issuing authority inscription. A blind-embossed municipal seal of Dortmund appears centrally beneath the text, with two manuscript signatures and an alphanumeric serial number in the lower right.
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Reverse description The reverse is a triptych composition: flanking panels carry atmospheric lithographic vignettes of heavy industry — blast furnaces, pit-head winding gear, factory sheds and billowing smokestacks rendered in ochre and brown tones — while the wide central panel bears the large numeral "500 000" in bold outlined figures above the full title in Fraktur script. Below the title, two lines of smaller text cite the authorising Reichsminister der Finanzen decree and a validity clause, followed by a repeated pale numeral underprint and a central polychrome Prussian eagle vignette flanked by decorative ribbon scrolls. The printer's imprint appears at the foot of the note.
Reverse lettering 500 000
Fünfhunderttausend-Mark-Schein
Dortmund-Hoerde.
Ausgegeben mit Genehmigung des Reichsministers der Finanzen auf Grund des Reichsgesetzes v. 17. Juli 22. (Reichsgesetzblatt vom 14.8.1922)
Dieser Schein wird ungültig einen Monat nach öffentlichem Aufruf.
Druck: W. Crüwell, Dortmund
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