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500 000 Mark Vereinigung Breslauer Arbeitgeberverbände
| Issuer | Vereinigung Breslauer Arbeitgeberverbände (Association of Breslau Employers' Associations) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | Breslauer Genossenschafts-Buchdruckerei e.G.m.b.H., Breslau |
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| Obverse description | Uniface Notgeld voucher printed in black on a light green guilloche underprint composed of repeating scroll and rosette patterns bordering the entire note. The denomination 'Fünfhunderttausend Mark' is set in large bold letterpress type across the top, with the numeral '500 000' in an oversized typeface below, flanked on each side by horizontal rule bars. The central text block in smaller roman type states the acceptance guarantee by Breslau banks, followed by the expiry clause dated 31 August 1923 and the issue date 'BRESLAU, DEN 10 AUGUST 1923'. The issuer's name 'Vereinigung Breslauer Arbeitgeberverbände' appears in a prominent serif typeface above two manuscript signatures, with the serial number printed vertically along the left margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is plain and unprinted, showing only the blank paper stock, with the obverse text visible in light show-through. |
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This is Notgeld — emergency municipal money issued during the hyperinflation peak of 1923, when the Reichsmark was collapsing fast enough that employers needed to pay wages in locally printed scrip simply to stay ahead of the daily exchange rate. The Vereinigung Breslauer Arbeitgeberverbände issued this specifically to meet payroll obligations; employer associations across Weimar Germany became de facto currency printers that year, a situation with no real precedent in modern industrial economies.
Printed locally by the Breslauer Genossenschafts-Buchdruckerei — itself a workers' cooperative print house — for a federation of employers. The irony is not subtle.