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500 000 Mark Jestetten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Jestetten (Municipality of Jestetten) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld des Zollausschluss-Gebietes. — 500.000 — Fünfhunderttausend Mark zahlt die Gemeinde Jestetten dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines. Jestetten, August 1923. Der Bürgermeister: Der Ratschreiber: GEMEINDE JESTETTEN |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a printed map of the Zollausschluss-Gebiet (customs exclusion zone) around Jestetten, rendered in black line work with the boundary of the zone highlighted in red, showing surrounding villages, the Rhine river, and the Swiss border labelled 'Schweiz'. A legend box at upper left identifies 'D.Z.: Deutscher Zoll' and 'S.Z.: Schweizer Zoll'. Above the map a humorous verse in red reads 'Zollfrei nennt man das Gebiet, das ringsum nichts als Zöllner sieht.' and below a second verse in red reads 'Trotzdem beneidet da und dort. — Ja, wenn nur Zoll und Pass wär fort!' The printer's imprint 'J. Fr. Greiner, Tiengen.' appears at the foot. |
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Jestetten is a small Baden municipality on the Rhine, geographically isolated from the rest of Germany by a loop of Swiss territory — a quirk that complicated supply lines and administrative logistics during the hyperinflation crisis. Like hundreds of German municipalities in 1923, it was forced to issue its own emergency currency after the Reichsbank's note output failed to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. By the time 500,000 Mark denominations were being printed for village-level Notgeld, the value of that sum was already eroding within days of issue.
A. Hiller & Sohn of Traunstein handled a significant volume of Bavarian municipal emergency printing that year.