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500 000 Mark Gewerbe- und Landwirtschafts-Bank
| Issuer | Gewerbe- und Landwirtschafts-Bank, Landau an der Isar |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 500 000 Mark (500 000) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed Notgeld (emergency currency) on plain paper with a light blue-green arabesque guilloche underprint filling the entire field. The note is framed by a bold black double-rule border with decorative foliate corner ornaments, and the denomination numeral 500.000 appears in the upper left and upper right corners. The text is set in a mix of blackletter (Fraktur) and roman typefaces, with the large denomination line 'Fünfhunderttausend Mark' centrally placed in a bold display font; a handwritten manuscript signature and an oval violet official rubber stamp of the Gewerbe- und Landwirtschaftsbank Landau a. Isar appear in the lower portion, alongside a serial number prefix 'A' and a six-digit number. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, showing plain cream-white paper with visible fold lines and light age toning; a faint mirror impression of the obverse serial number is discernible in the lower right area through the paper. |
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One of hundreds of municipal and regional institutions that issued notgeld during the hyperinflation of 1923, the Gewerbe- und Landwirtschafts-Bank in Landau an der Isar was a small commercial and agricultural lender with no business printing currency — yet the Reichsbank's collapse of confidence forced exactly that. The Ried'sche Buchdruckerei, a local print shop in the same town, produced this 500,000 Mark note, which means the entire operation — authorization, design, printing, and distribution — happened within a single small Bavarian market town on the Isar.
By the time notes at this denomination were being issued, the figure itself was already eroding. Inflation in late 1923 was advancing faster than print runs could follow.