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500 000 Mark Leutkirch
| Issuer | Stadtpflege Leutkirch im Allgäu |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Light blue Stadtkassenschein printed by black letterpress on plain paper, enclosed within a double-rule border. To the left, a pen-and-ink vignette illustrates a medieval tower with a conical spire and an adjacent domed turret set among trees, occupying approximately one third of the note's width. The right portion carries the issuing authority and denomination in Fraktur script, followed by the payment obligation text, an anti-counterfeiting warning, the date of issue, and two manuscript signature lines for the Stadtschultheiß and Stadtpfleger, with the serial number positioned in the lower-left margin beneath the vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | Oberamtsstadt Leutkirch im Allgäu Stadtkassenschein Fünfhunderttausend Mark zahlt die Stadtpflege in Leutkirch dem Einlieferer dieses Kassenscheins 500.000 Nachahmung oder Fälschung ist strafbar Leutkirch, den 21. August 1923. Stadtschultheiß Stadtpfleger |
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Leutkirch im Allgäu was a small market town in Württemberg with no meaningful banking infrastructure of its own, which makes its 1923 Notgeld output — including this 500,000 Mark denomination — a product of municipal desperation rather than civic ambition. The Stadtpflege, the town's treasury office, stepped in as issuer when the Reichsbank simply could not move currency into smaller communities fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation. By mid-1923, denominations that would have seemed absurd eighteen months earlier were being printed locally on whatever paper stock was available.
Local printing at this scale almost always means limited production runs and inconsistent paper quality, which is why surviving examples from small Württemberg municipalities tend to show handling wear disproportionate to their brief circulation life.