500 000 Mark Weinsberg

Weinsberg is a small town in Württemberg whose name is attached to one of the more darkly comic episodes in medieval German history — the 1140 siege in which Conrad III granted the women of the castle safe passage with whatever they could carry on their backs, whereupon they carried their husbands out. Whether that local pride had any bearing on the town's decision to issue its own emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923 is a separate matter entirely.

Like most Württemberg Notgeld at this denomination level, this note was produced locally during the period when municipal and commercial issuers were printing faster than the Reichsbank could supply. The watermarked paper is worth noting — at 500,000 Mark face value, that security feature was already an absurdity given the rate at which the denomination was being rendered worthless.