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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Der Magistrat der Stadt Dortmund (for the Stadt- und Landkreise Dortmund und Hörde) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfhundert Tausend Mark zahlen die städt. Kassen in Dortmund u. Hörde, sowie die Kreis-Stadt-, Amts-Spar- u. Gemeindekassen in den Landkreisen Dortmund u. Hörde dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines Dortmund, am 16. Juli 1923 Für die Stadt- u. Landkreise Dortmund u. Hörde: Der Magistrat der Stadt Dortmund 500 000 |
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| 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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Dortmund's municipal administration issued this note under emergency currency provisions — the Notgeld system that fractured German money supply into thousands of locally authorized instruments during the hyperinflation of 1923. By the time 500,000-Mark denominations were circulating at the municipal level, the Reichsbank's own printing capacity had become inadequate, and regional printers like W. Crüwell absorbed the overflow.
The joint coverage of Stadt- und Landkreise Dortmund und Hörde reflects a practical administrative merger for currency purposes rather than any formal political reorganization. Hörde was not absorbed into Dortmund proper until 1928.