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500 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Lichtenstein-Callnberg (City of Lichtenstein-Callnberg) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issued by the City of Lichtenstein-Callnberg, printed in brown on cream paper with a decorative guilloche border framing the entire face, with the denomination numeral '500' repeated in each corner rosette. The central text is rendered in ornate Fraktur script, with 'Fünfhundert Mark' in large blackletter type over a circular guilloche underprint medallion. Below the denomination, the place and date of issue appear in Roman type, followed by two manuscript signatures under the designations 'Der Stadtrat' (Bürgermeister) and 'Die Stadtverordneten' (Vorsteher), with the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted, left blank. |
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Lichtenstein-Callnberg is a small Saxon textile town that merged its hyphenated identity from two formerly separate settlements. Like hundreds of German municipalities during the hyperinflationary spiral of 1922–1923, it resorted to issuing its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to compensate for the chronic shortage of Reichsbank notes in everyday denominations. The 500 Mark figure, which would have seemed enormous just two years earlier, was already losing purchasing power by the week at the time of issue.
Rats-Druckerei R. Dulce in nearby Glauchau was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist security press, which is exactly what local Notgeld production looked like in practice.