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500 000 Mark Kreis Wipperfürth
| Issuer | Kreis Wipperfürth |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green on plain white paper, the reverse is enclosed within a plain rectangular frame with a repeating dot-matrix underprint filling the interior field. The denomination '500 000 Mark' is set in bold black letterpress within a framed central panel, and the district name 'Kreis Wipperfürth' appears in each of the four corners. A circular embossed official seal is present at the lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | Kreis Wipperfürth Kreis Wipperfürth 500 000 Mark Kreis Wipperfürth Kreis Wipperfürth |
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Kreis Wipperfürth was a rural district in the Bergisches Land region of the Rhineland, and its emergency currency from the hyperinflation of 1923 was printed, like much of the provincial notgeld from that period, by commercial printers in nearby Cologne rather than by any specialist banknote firm. Heiss & Co. handled a significant volume of this kind of work during the crisis months — the economics were brutal: denominations became obsolete faster than the ink dried, and printers operated on tight turnaround schedules.
At 500,000 Mark, this note belongs to the mid-tier of the runaway summer denominations, before the autumn collapse pushed issuers into the billions.