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500 Mark
| Uitgever | Stadtrat Gotha (City Council of Gotha) |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Cream-toned Notgeld issued on behalf of the Stadt Gotha, with a large Gothic-script denomination legend 'Fünf Hundert Mark' spanning the centre, set against a pink guilloche underprint panel on the left. The numeral '500' appears in bold at upper right, beside a red-printed vignette of a crowned bishop saint holding a crozier and book, resting on a plinth — an element drawn from the Gotha civic heraldic tradition. A multi-line text block in Fraktur script states the acceptance conditions at named local banking institutions, followed by the issue date 'Gotha, den 5. Oktober 1922', the authorising legend 'Der Stadtrat', and the manuscript signature of the Oberbürgermeister; a dry embossed municipal seal appears at lower right. |
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| Beveiligingstype | Embossed seal |
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| Opmerkingen |
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.