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500 000 Mark Kreis Adenau
| Issuer | Kreissparkasse Adenau |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein des Kreises Adenau. Fünfhunderttausend Mark zahlt die Kreissparkasse Adenau dem Einlieferer dieses Gutscheines. Der Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit 4 Wochen nach Aufruf des Kreisausschusses durch die Adenauer Zeitung Adenau, den 31. Juli 1923. Der Landrat: In Vertretung Der Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses: In Vertretung Die Kreissparkasse Adenau: |
| Reverse description | Printed in purple on cream paper, the reverse is dominated by two oval landscape vignettes side by side at centre, separated by a sheaf of wheat stalks and framed by decorative foliage. The left vignette depicts the Kapelle in Hönningen, a rustic chapel with a timber-framed structure, while the right vignette shows the Bernhardslinde bei Kempenich, a monumental linden tree in a village setting. The numeral '500000' appears in bold within a rectangular panel at the bottom, and the denomination '500000 Mark' is printed vertically along the right margin. |
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Kreis Adenau was a small rural district in the Eifel region of the Rhineland, and its Kreissparkasse — a district savings bank rather than a major commercial institution — was among hundreds of local bodies forced into emergency currency issuance during the hyperinflation peak of 1923. By the time 500,000-Mark denominations were being printed at the district level, the Reichsbank's own output could not keep pace with the velocity of price collapse; municipalities, savings banks, and even private firms filled the gap with Notgeld.
The sheer number of issuing bodies in the Rhineland during this period means attribution and catalog classification remain messy — district-level pieces like this are frequently underdocumented compared to city issues.