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500 000 Marks
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Speyer (City of Speyer Notgeld, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Tan-toned note with ornate corner flourishes and a guilloche-patterned underprint bearing the numeral 500000. The city arms of Speyer appear as a watermark-style vignette at centre. The denomination in Gothic blackletter script dominates the upper field, with the issuing authority legend and date of 27 July 1923 in the text body below. |
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| Reverse description | The entire reverse is occupied by a large intaglio-style vignette in dark olive tones, illustrating a Romantic scene of robed and crowned figures on a rocky riverbank with a Gothic cathedral silhouette in the background. The denomination in Gothic blackletter appears at upper left, the numeral 500000 at lower centre, and a two-line verse quotation runs along the bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Fünfhunderttausend-Mark 500.000 „Er hält in den Händen das lohnende Geld Drauf glühen aus alter Zeit und Welt / Viel stolze Kaiserbilder.” |
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