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500 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtrat Gotha (City Council of Gotha) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 500 Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Gotha Fünf Hundert Mark 500 Dieser Gutschein wird von allen städtischen Kassen in Zahlung genommen und von der Bank für Thüringen vorm. B. M. Strupp Akt.-Ges. Filiale Gotha, der Deutschen Bank Filiale Gotha, dem Hofbankhaus Gebr. Goldschmidt, dem Hofbankhaus Max Mueller und der Thüringischen Landesbank A.-G. Abt. Gotha zur Gutschrift angenommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb 14 Tagen nach öffentlicher Aufforderung des Stadtrats zur Einlösung bei obigen Banken vorgelegt wird. Gotha, den 5. Oktober 1922. Der Stadtrat Oberbürgermeister. Nr. 29793* Hofbuchdruckerei Gotha. |
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| Protection type | Embossed seal |
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Gotha's city council issued this note during the hyperinflationary spiral of 1922, when municipal and commercial entities across Germany were legally empowered to print emergency currency — Notgeld — to compensate for the Reich's inability to supply adequate coinage and small denomination bills. By mid-1922, inflation had accelerated to the point where 500 Mark was already a practical, everyday amount rather than a large sum.
The Hofbuchdruckerei was Gotha's court printing house, with a long history of cartographic and scientific publishing through Justus Perthes. The embossed seal was the issuer's primary authentication measure — a modest safeguard for a note whose purchasing power was evaporating faster than any forger could exploit it.