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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Crefeld (City of Krefeld) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Crefeld Gutschein über 500 000 Mk. Fünfhunderttausend M. Dieser Gutschein wird spätestens am 1. Februar 1919 Dieser Schein wird nur bis zum 15. Nov. 1923 von sämtl. städtischen Kassen angenommen |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green on a pale ground covered with a repetitive typographic underprint of the text 'STADT CREFELD' arranged in diagonal rows across the entire surface. A central ornamental vignette in the Jugendstil manner frames the Krefeld municipal shield — divided horizontally with a crown above — flanked by scrolling acanthus foliage and laurel branches, with the numeral '5' in a circular medallion at the foot; the legend 'Stadt Crefeld' arches above the shield in Gothic script, while 'Fünf Mark' is displayed in bold blackletter across the centre of the cartouche. |
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Krefeld's 500,000 Mark notgeld sits at an unusual juncture: the city issued emergency currency well into the hyperinflationary spiral that followed Germany's defeat, when municipal and commercial issuers were racing to print denominations that would have been unthinkable two years earlier. At 500,000 Mark, this note dates from the acute phase of 1923, not 1918 — the stated year warrants scrutiny, as Krefeld did issue earlier low-denomination notgeld from 1918, but six-figure values belong firmly to the later emergency.
The Rhineland's occupation by Allied forces after 1918 complicated local monetary circulation considerably, adding a political dimension to what was already a logistical crisis.