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500 000 Mark Kreis Pinneberg
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Pinneberg |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain light paper with a fine guilloche underprint and a decorative typeset border. The denomination "Fünfhunderttausend Mark" is printed in bold letterpress across the centre, with the numeral "500000" repeated vertically along the left margin. A red official circular stamp of the Kreis Pinneberg appears at lower right, accompanied by manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse showing bleed-through of the obverse letterpress text and the red official stamp, with a simple ruled typeset border at right. The paper bears toning and fold marks consistent with circulation. |
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Kreisausschuss des Kreises Pinneberg was one of hundreds of German district authorities forced into emergency currency production during the hyperinflation peak of 1923, when the Reichsbank could not physically print and distribute legal tender fast enough to meet payroll and retail demands. District-level bodies — Kreise — had no formal monetary authority but issued Notgeld anyway, often on whatever paper stock was locally available, with authorization implied rather than granted.
At 500,000 Mark, this note reflects the mid-phase of the collapse — by November 1923, denominations had reached the trillions.