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500 000 Mark Birkenfelder Landesbank
| Issuer | Bank für das Nahetal A.-G. (Birkenfelder Landesbank) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 500 000 Marks (500 000) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on pink paper in Fraktur (blackletter) typeface throughout, the obverse bears the serial number at upper left and the denomination figure 'Mark 500000.—' at upper right. The central text block carries the promise of transfer to the bearer's bank account, with the denomination spelled out in large bold Fraktur script as 'Mark: Fünfhunderttausend'. The place and date 'Birkenfeld/Nahe, den 30. Juli 1923' appear at lower left, while the issuing institution's name and two manuscript signatures occupy the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | No. [serial number] Mark 500000.— Dem Einreicher dieses überweisen wir auf sein Bankkonto Mark: Fünfhunderttausend Die Einreichung kann direkt oder durch Vermittlung einer Bank oder Sparkasse erfolgen. Soweit Reichsbanknoten zur Verfügung stehen, erfolgt ein Umtausch gegen diese. Birkenfeld/Nahe, den 30. Juli 1923. Bank für das Nahetal A.-G. (Birkenfelder Landesbank) |
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The Bank für das Nahetal A.-G. operated as the Birkenfelder Landesbank in the former Principality of Birkenfeld, a Prussian exclave stranded geographically within Oldenburg. During the hyperinflation crisis of 1923, regional and municipal institutions across Germany scrambled to issue Notgeld to cover denominations the Reichsbank could not supply fast enough — this 500,000 Mark note is a product of exactly that breakdown.
The Nahetal bank's issues are among the less-documented Großgeldscheine of the period. Attribution to DeNG 12#428a places it within the July–August 1923 wave, when the mark's collapse accelerated so rapidly that notes became functionally obsolete within days of printing.