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500 000 Mark Riedlingen; Gewerbebank
| Issuer | Gewerbebank Riedlingen e.G.m.b.H. |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 135 x 102 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream ground with a central brown-printed vignette of a medieval armoured soldier bearing a lance and shield. Letterpress text in blackletter type states the denomination 'Fünfhunderttausend Mark' and issuer details; numeral '500000' printed vertically on both lateral margins. An oval violet issuer stamp appears at upper left, dated Riedlingen, 29. August 1923. |
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| Obverse lettering | DU SOLLST AN DEUTSCHLANDS ZUKUNFT GLAUBEN, AN DEINES VOLKES AUFERSTEH'N TROTZ ALLEM, WAS GESCHEH'N LASS DIESEN GLAUBEN DIR NJAGT RAUBEN Nachahmung und Fälschung wird bestraft. Gewerbebank Riedlingen e.G.m.b.H. Die Gewerbebank Riedlingen zahlt dem Einlieferer dieses Bankscheines Fünfhunderttausend Mark in Deutscher Reichswährung und gesetzlichen Zahlungsmitteln. Riedlingen, den 29. August 1923. Vorsitzender. Kassier. Kontrolleur. |
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Riedlingen is a small market town on the upper Danube in Württemberg, and the Gewerbebank there — a cooperative trade bank — was among hundreds of local institutions that issued notgeld during the 1923 hyperinflation when Reichsbank currency became functionally worthless faster than it could be printed and distributed. At 500,000 Mark, this note was already obsolete within weeks of issue; by November 1923, a single US dollar exchanged for over four trillion marks.
Local printing in a town this size almost certainly meant a commercial job printer rather than a specialist security press — quality control and paper consistency vary noticeably across surviving examples of Württemberg provincial notgeld from this period.