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500 000 Mark Rheydt
| Issuer | Stadt Rheydt |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Rheydt C Nr. 13132 Die Stadt Rheydt zahlt für diesen Schein Fünfhunderttausend Mark Der Zeitpunkt der Einlösung wird bekannt gemacht. Der Oberbürgermeister: Rheydt, den 9. August 1923 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, consisting of plain paper with no vignette, text, or security elements of any kind. |
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Rheydt was an industrial textile town in the Rhineland — and also the birthplace of Joseph Goebbels, though that connection postdates this note by decades. In 1923 the town's municipal authority, like hundreds of German Gemeinden, was forced into emergency currency issuance as Reichsbank notes became worthless faster than they could be printed. The 500,000 Mark denomination, unthinkable two years earlier, was by mid-1923 barely enough for a tram fare.
Otto Berger was a local Rheydt printer, not a specialist currency house. That matters — quality control on Notgeld from small commercial printers varied considerably, and paper stock was often whatever was available.