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500 000 Mark Gonsenheim
| Issuer | Gemeinde Gonsenheim |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 147 × 90 mm |
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| Reverse description | Green letterpress design on cream paper with a fine guilloche underprint; Gothic script text is distributed across the face, with the municipal identification 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Gonsenheim kr. Mainz' as the principal legend. |
| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Gonsenheim kr. Mainz |
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Gonsenheim was an independent municipality just west of Mainz when this note was issued in 1923, during the height of the hyperinflation crisis that was rendering Reichsbank notes obsolete faster than they could be printed. Local authorities across Germany — including small Gemeinden like Gonsenheim — were legally empowered to issue Notgeld to keep commerce functioning, and a half-million Mark denomination reflects how rapidly the floor had dropped out of the currency by mid-1923.
Gonsenheim was incorporated into Mainz in 1930, making the issuing authority itself a historical footnote.