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500 000 Mark Henkel & Cie
| Issuer | Henkel & Cie. G.m.b.H., Düsseldorf |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN Reihe A Henkel & Cie. G. m. b. H. zahlen gegen Rückgabe dieses Gutscheines spätestens am 30. Septbr. 1923 Fünfhunderttausend Mark Weitere Einlösungsstellen: Deutsche Bank, Düsseldorf A. Schaaffhausen'scher Bankverein Benrath Sparkassen: Benrath und Holthausen HENKEL & Cie. G. m. b. H. Reihe A |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown on a light green guilloche underprint within a multi-rule border identical in style to the obverse. The central design element is a rectangular cartouche with scrolled acanthus-leaf ornaments above and below, enclosing the large numeral '500000' in bold Roman figures; the surrounding field carries a fine lozenge-pattern guilloche. No additional text appears on this side. |
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Henkel & Cie. — the chemicals and consumer goods firm still trading today as Henkel AG — issued this 500,000 Mark notgeld in 1923 as Germany's hyperinflation made Reichsbank notes functionally useless for meeting weekly payroll. Large industrial employers across the Rhineland and Ruhr were effectively forced into private currency issuance; waiting for official denominations to catch up with inflation meant workers went unpaid.
A. Bagel A.-G. was a Düsseldorf printer with extensive notgeld output during this period, producing emergency issues for multiple regional firms simultaneously. The DeNG 7/8 catalog places this firmly within the commercial/industrial notgeld classification rather than municipal emergency currency.