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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Boppard (City of Boppard) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain light paper note printed in dark ink, enclosed within a decorative border of repeating arrow and diamond motifs. The text is set in a combination of Fraktur blackletter and roman typefaces, with the large denomination legend 'Fünfhunderttausend Mark' occupying the central band; a serial number appears to the upper left and a circular official municipal dry stamp is applied at centre. The issuing authority, date of issue, and redemption deadline are stated in letterpress text, with the Bürgermeister's countersignature at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Boppard a/Rh. über Mark 500 000.- Fünfhunderttausend Mark Dieser Gutschein kann bei der Stadtkasse und den hiesigen Banken eingelöst werden. / / / / / Einlösungs-Endtermin ist der 1. September 1923. Boppard, den 4. August 1923. Der Bürgermeister. J. D.: |
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Boppard, a small Rhine town in the Rhineland-Palatinate, issued its own emergency currency during the hyperinflation spiral of 1923 — the period when German municipal and private issuers printed Notgeld simply to keep commerce moving as Reichsbank notes became worthless faster than they could be distributed. At 500,000 Mark, this denomination reflects the mid-to-late phase of that collapse; by November 1923, a single US dollar was trading at over four trillion Mark.
Conrad was a local printer, not a security printing house. The official stamp is doing the work that printing quality cannot.