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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Amtsverbände Hechingen und Haigerloch |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into two distinct panels printed in dark ink on plain paper. The left panel carries a woodcut-style vignette of Hohenzollern Castle rising dramatically on its conical hill, with a farmer ploughing a field with a horse in the foreground, rendered in fine hatching. The right panel, enclosed within a decorative wavy border with chequered corner ornaments, bears a portrait bust of a male figure at centre, a counterfeiting warning text in Kurrent script at left, the denomination in large Gothic blackletter script reading Fünfhunderttausend Mark, and the issuing authority Amtsverbände Hechingen und Haigerloch below, surmounted by the title Hohenzollerisches Notgeld. |
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| Obverse lettering | Hohenzollerisches Notgeld Wer Banknoten nachmacht oder verfälscht, oder nachgemachte od. verfälschte sich verschafft und in den Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter 2 Jahren bestraft. Namens der Amtsverbände: Fünfhunderttausend Mark Amtsverbände Hechingen und Haigerloch |
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Hechingen and Haigerloch were two small administrative districts in the former Hohenzollern exclave — a patchwork of Prussian territory deep in Württemberg, technically part of Prussia despite being geographically isolated from it. During the 1923 hyperinflation, local authorities (Amtsverbände) across Germany were authorized to issue Notgeld to compensate for the catastrophic shortage of usable currency as the Reichsmark collapsed. The joint issue by these two neighboring districts was a practical consolidation — neither had the resources to administer a separate series.
The 500,000 Mark denomination was already becoming inadequate within weeks of printing; by late 1923 the same goods required billions.