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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Bergedorf |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 149 × 118 mm |
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| Obverse description | Orange-amber guilloche underprint across the entire field, enclosed within a double-rule black border. The denomination '500000 Mark' is printed vertically in bold black letterpress along both lateral margins. A central vignette panel contains a small heraldic device above the large bold inscription 'Fünfhunderttausend Mark', with the title 'Gutschein über' set above in lighter type. Below, a text block in German sets out the redemption terms, dated 'Bergedorf, den 7. August 1923', beneath which appear two manuscript signatures alongside the issuer designation 'Die Stadtkasse' and a circular violet official stamp of the city of Bergedorf at lower left. A serial number prefix 'Nr. A' appears at upper right, with a 'Kontrolliert:' control line at lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein über Fünfhunderttausend Mark Die Stadtkasse Bergedorf löst diesen Gutschein bis 31. August 1923 gegen andere gesetzliche Zahlungsmittel ein. Bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt wird dieser Gutschein von den hiesigen Banken sowie von der Sparkasse der Stadt Bergedorf als Zahlungsmittel entgegengenommen Bergedorf, den 7. August 1923 Die Stadtkasse Kontrolliert: Nr. A 500000 Mark Bergedorf-Sander Volksblatt |
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Bergedorf was an independent town northeast of Hamburg until 1937, when it was formally incorporated into Greater Hamburg — one of the last German municipalities absorbed under the Nazi administrative consolidation. This note predates that by fourteen years, issued when Bergedorf still maintained its own Stadtkasse and the legal authority to emit emergency currency. The 500,000 Mark denomination places it squarely in the catastrophic inflation summer of 1923, when municipal and private issuers across Germany flooded circulation with Notgeld simply to keep wages moving.
Printed locally by Ed. Wagner's Bergedorfer Buchdruckerei, the note never traveled far from its point of issue.