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500 000 Mark Landkreis Neuss
| Issuer | Landkreis Neuss (Kreisverwaltung Neuss) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a uniform grey-green tone and carries no text beyond the central denomination. The design is entirely typographic and ornamental: a large diamond-shaped cartouche with elaborate scrollwork arabesques at its upper and lower points frames the central horizontal band, in which '500000 Mark' is rendered in bold white-reserve Gothic lettering flanked by six-pointed star devices. The background is filled with fine horizontal line guilloche work, enclosed within a multi-rule and sawtooth outer border. |
| Reverse lettering | * 500000 Mark * |
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Landkreis Neuss was one of hundreds of German administrative districts that issued their own emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsmark collapsed so rapidly that local authorities could not wait for Berlin to supply adequate denominations. The 500,000 Mark figure, which would have seemed staggering in 1921, was already insufficient for basic transactions by mid-1923 — the Rentenmark stabilization in November of that year rendered the entire series worthless within weeks of issue.
B. Kühlen was a commercial printer in Mönchengladbach, not a specialist security printer, which is exactly what distinguishes district-level notgeld from centrally issued currency.