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500 000 Mark Atlas Werke
| Issuer | Atlas Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Bremen |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 137 x 87 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Mk. 500 000 Die Darmstädter u. Nationalbank K. a. A. wolle zahlen gegen diesen Gutschein Nr. FUNFHUNDERTTAUSEND MARK Bremen, 13. August 1923. Atlas-Werke Aktiengesellschaft Nur zur Verrechnung Dieser Schein muss bis zum 31. August 1923 eingelöst sein. |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse in cream paper, showing bleed-through of the obverse text and guilloche pattern in mirror image. A central punch-cancellation hole is visible, consistent with redemption or archival cancellation. |
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Atlas Werke AG was a Bremen-based shipbuilding and marine engineering firm, and like thousands of German industrial companies in the summer and autumn of 1923, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to pay workers when Reichsbank notes became worthless faster than they could be printed. At the 500,000 Mark level, this note was already obsolete within weeks of issue; by November 1923 the denomination would have been laughably small against the hyperinflationary peak.
H.M. Hauschild was a Bremen printer that handled a significant volume of local Notgeld commissions during this period. The note's regional specificity — a major industrial issuer, a local press — is exactly what makes firm-issue Notgeld from this phase more historically grounded than the decorative municipal issues that preceded it.