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500 000 Mark Gonsenheim
| Issuer | Gemeinde Gonsenheim |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | Druckerei Mayer, Mainz, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress Notgeld note on cream paper, with a fine guilloche underprint covering the entire field; a decorative ribbon banner at the top carries the Gothic script legend 'Notgeld der Gemeinde'. At centre, an oval cartouche frames a vignette of the Gonsenheim municipal building with a church tower visible behind it, flanked by two symmetrical decorative clusters of vegetables and flowers to the left and fruits and foliage to the right. The locality name 'Gonsenheim' and district inscription 'Kr. Mainz' appear in large Gothic script in the lower half, with the denomination 'Fünfhunderttausend M' and series letter 'Lit. A' completing the face. |
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| 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.