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500 000 Mark Kreis Schleswig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Schleswig |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 500 000 Mark (500 000) |
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| Obverse description | The left panel carries a finely executed letterpress vignette of the Idstedt-Kirche (Idstedt Church) with its twin Gothic spires set against billowing clouds, captioned below with the Low German motto 'Gott gew ehr Bestand / Un segn uns Land'; a serial number box appears in the upper left corner. The right panel displays the denomination '500000 Mark' in bold blackletter type, with the written-out value 'Fünfhunderttausend Mark' below, followed by the issuing text and date in Kurrent script, and a manuscript signature at the foot. The note is framed by a dotted outer border with a ruled inner border separating the two panels. |
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| Reverse lettering | (Translation: 500000 Marks Five Hundred Thousand Marks This note is redeemed by the district municipal treasury in Schleswig. It loses its validity one month after recall and announcement in the district gazette. Schleswig, 14 August 1923 The District Committee of the District of Schleswig) |
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One of thousands of Notgeld issues produced during the hyperinflationary collapse of 1923, this 500,000 Mark note was authorized by the district committee of the Kreis Schleswig — a local administrative body with no standing monetary authority, issuing emergency currency purely because Reichsbank notes could not keep pace with price increases that were, by mid-1923, doubling within days. The printer L. Handorff of Kiel handled both design and production, a common economy of the period where regional print shops took on the whole commission.
Schleswig's position on the Danish border gives the district a particular political charge in this period — the 1920 plebiscite had only recently partitioned the region, and the northern zone had voted to join Denmark. Notes like this one circulated in a district still adjusting to a redrawn frontier.