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500 000 Mark Badische Bank
| Issuer | Badische Bank |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse lettering | MARK 500000 MARK 5 HUNDERT TAUSEND MARK 500000 |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Badische Bank was one of the German private note-issuing banks that found itself printing emergency Inflation-period denominations at a pace its pre-war infrastructure was never designed to support. By mid-1923, the Reichsmark's collapse had pushed regional banks to issue notes in the hundreds of thousands — figures that would have been inconceivable two years earlier. The 500,000 Mark denomination arrived just as that figure was briefly meaningful; within weeks, it was effectively pocket change.
Printed locally in Mannheim, which was also the bank's home city, the note bypassed the major Frankfurt and Berlin printers entirely. Geier's design credit is relatively rare in German regional inflation issues of this period.