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500 000 Mark overstamp on 500 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Fallingbostel (District Committee of Fallingbostel) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 151 x 95 mm |
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| Reverse description | Plain red-brown reverse with a geometric guilloche border frame enclosing a large central oval guilloche vignette bearing the numeral '500' in white. A bold black overstamp 'Mark 500000 Mark' crosses the oval horizontally, with the date 'Fallingbostel, den 20. August 1923' below. Anti-counterfeiting legend arcs around the oval. |
| Reverse lettering | 500 Mark Nachahmungen dieses Notgeldscheines werden strafrechtlich verfolgt. Fallingbostel, den 20. August 1923. (Translation: 500 Marks Counterfeiting this emergency banknote will be prosecuted under criminal law. Fallingbostel, 20 August 1923.) |
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Fallingbostel's district committee resorted to the simplest possible solution to the hyperinflationary collapse of 1923: rubber-stamping an enormous denomination directly onto existing 500 Mark notes rather than commissioning new paper. The underlying Jänecke-printed stock was already in administrative use, which made the overprint logistically trivial — the same printer had supplied the base notes, so the district had the material on hand.
This kind of notgeld overprint reflects how rapidly German municipal and district authorities lost faith in the Reichsbank's ability to supply adequate currency. By mid-1923, a note's face value could become obsolete within days of printing.