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500 000 Mark Reichsbahndirektion
| Issuer | Reichsbahndirektion Altona |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Uniface emergency issue (Notgeld) on firm, textured white paper with a grey printed border frame. The text block, rendered in brown letterpress, carries the full voucher legend including issuer, denomination in numerals and words, conditions of acceptance, place, and date of issue. No serial number present. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is blank, with the octagonal tile watermark (Keller #162) visible through the paper stock. The note is uniface, with no printed design or lettering on this side. |
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The German railway administrations — Reichsbahndirektionen — became emergency money issuers during the hyperinflation of 1923 largely out of operational necessity. Wage payments to railway workers could not wait for central bank supplies to catch up with collapsing purchasing power, so regional directorates printed their own notgeld. The Altona directorate covered the Hamburg metropolitan rail network, and its staff would have seen the face value of this note rendered meaningless within weeks, sometimes days, of issue.
The watermark security feature is notable for notgeld of this class — many comparable railway issues dispensed with it entirely at this denomination, treating the notes as purely transient instruments.