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500 000 Mark Messamt für die Mustermessen in Leipzig
| Emittent | Messamt für die Mustermessen in Leipzig |
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| Jahr | 1923 |
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| Währung | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | The obverse is divided into two principal zones: at left, a black-and-white vignette renders a bustling street scene on the Petersstrasse during the Leipzig trade fair, with crowds of figures beneath tall building facades, captioned below in small text. To the right, the denomination is set in bold Fraktur script reading 'Fünfhunderttausend' above the large numeral '500,000 Mark', with a green guilloche underprint. Below the denomination, a text clause in Gothic script states the redemption conditions, followed by the place and date of issue 'Leipzig, im August 1923', a red serial number, and the issuer's name 'MESSAMT FÜR DIE MUSTERMESSEN IN LEIPZIG' with two manuscript signatures. Green typeset borders carrying the repeated legend '500,000 MARK' frame the top and bottom edges. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | The reverse, printed entirely in green on plain paper, is a typeset composition dominated by the large Fraktur heading 'Notgeld' at the top. Below, a text block in Gothic script states the note was issued with the approval of the Reichsfinanzministerium for the Herbstmesse 1923, followed by the issuer's name 'MESSAMT FÜR DIE MUSTERMESSEN IN LEIPZIG' in bold capitals. Flanking a historical quotation in italic script dated 'anno 1581' are two stylised double-M monogram devices, the trademark symbol of the Leipzig trade fair. |
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The Messamt für die Mustermessen — the trade fair authority administering the Leipzig Sample Fair — issued notgeld in 1923 not out of civic obligation but commercial necessity. The hyperinflation consuming Germany that year made it impossible to pay workers, vendors, and contractors at the fair grounds without locally issued emergency currency. The Leipzig trade fair was, by this point, one of the most internationally significant commercial events in Central Europe, which gave the Messamt both the institutional standing and the practical incentive to print its own.
Half a million marks sounds extraordinary; by mid-1923 it barely covered a streetcar fare.