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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Uerdingen (City of Uerdingen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 500 000 Marks (500 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Uerdingen FÜNF HUNDERT TAUSEND MARK SCHWARZKOPF Die Stadt Uerdingen zahlt bei ihren sämtlichen Kassen dem Vorzeiger Mk. 500000.- Der Zeitpunkt der Einlösung wird öffentlich bekanntgegeben. — Uerdingen am Rhein den 15. August 1923. — Der Bürgermeister i.V. L. SCHWANN · DÜSSELDORF |
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| Reverse lettering | Stadt Uerdingen 1646 500000 AUSGEGEBEN AUF GRUND DER ERMÄCHTI- GUNG DES REICHSFINANZMINISTERIUMS Stadt Uerdingen |
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Uerdingen am Rhein was a small industrial town on the lower Rhine, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1923, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — as the Reichsmark collapsed under hyperinflation. By the time half-million Mark notes were being printed, the denomination was already losing ground to prices before the ink dried. The Schwann press in Düsseldorf handled a significant volume of municipal Notgeld commissions during this period, which kept production costs low but meant little visual distinction between one town's emergency paper and the next.
Uerdingen itself was absorbed into Krefeld in 1929, erasing it as an administrative entity entirely.