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500 000 Mark
| Issuer | Bürgermeisterei Rheinhausen (Municipality of Rheinhausen am Niederrhein, Prussian Province of Rhine) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Cream-coloured note with a yellow-ochre guilloche underprint of repeating scroll motifs and denomination numerals (500000) arranged across the field. A decorative border of foliate and dot ornaments in purple frames the entire note. The denomination 'Fünfhunderttausend Mark' is set in large blackletter typeface occupying the upper left, with the issuing authority 'Bürgermeisterei Rheinhausen.' inscribed at the top in roman type. A redemption clause in Gothic script appears to the right of the denomination, the place and date 'Rheinhausen, den 3. August 1923.' are printed at centre-bottom, and a red typeset serial number appears at lower right alongside manuscript signatures of the Bürgermeister and the deputy (Beigeordnete). |
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| Obverse lettering | Bürgermeisterei Rheinhausen. Fünfhunderttausend Mark zahlen die Gemeinde- u. Bürgermeisterei-Sparkassen Rheinhausen dem Einlieferer dieses Gutscheines innerhalb eines Monats nach Aufruf in den hier erscheinenden Zeitungen. Rheinhausen, den 3. August 1923. Der Bürgermeister. J. D.: Der Beigeordnete: |
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Rheinhausen sits directly across the Rhine from Duisburg, and by mid-1923 the town's identity was almost entirely industrial — the Krupp steelworks dominated local employment, and the municipality's finances were inseparable from the fate of that operation. This 500,000 Mark note belongs to the Inflationsgeld wave that peaked as the Reichsmark lost all practical meaning, forcing even small municipalities to issue their own emergency denominations just to meet weekly wage obligations.
Local Notgeld at this face value had a lifespan measured in days before the denomination became insufficient. The Rentenmark reform of November 1923 rendered the entire series worthless almost immediately after issue.