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500 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Zwickau |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Printed in grey-violet on plain paper, the reverse centres on a large oval vignette enclosed within a fine guilloche frame, containing a landscape view of an industrial facility — likely a colliery or factory complex in the Zwickau district — with chimneys, pit-head structures, and their reflection in a foreground waterway. The numeral "500" appears in circular medallions at left and right, and a red serial number is printed below the central vignette. A cautionary anti-counterfeiting legend in German runs across the top margin, and the cancellation overprint "Ungültig" appears in manuscript at upper left. |
| Reverse lettering | Wer Gutscheine nachmacht oder verfälscht oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter zwei Jahren bestraft. Ungültig 500 |
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Zwickau's Amtshauptmannschaft — a mid-level Saxon administrative district, not a bank — issued this note under the emergency currency provisions that proliferated across Germany as hyperinflation began eroding Reichsbank supply. District and municipal bodies throughout Saxony printed their own Notgeld in 1922 precisely because demand for high-denomination paper was outpacing official issuance.
The Bezirksverband had no printing infrastructure of its own; production was contracted locally. Collector interest in Saxon district Notgeld runs high relative to survival rates, since much of the 1922 material was redeemed and pulped within months of issue.