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500 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Bautzen |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Printer | Kunstanstalt Stengel & Co. G.m.b.H., Dresden |
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| Obverse description | Typographically composed Notgeld on cream paper with an elaborate guilloche border and ornamental corner cartouches containing the numeral '500' in Gothic script. The denomination 'Fünfhundert Mark' is printed in large bold Fraktur type across the centre, flanked on each side by rectangular guilloche vignettes with a symmetrical floral underprint. Above, the title 'Gutschein' and the issuing authority text appear in smaller Fraktur lettering, while the lower panel bears the place-date 'Bautzen, am 15. Oktober 1922', the issuer's name, two manuscript signatures, and the role designations 'Amtshauptmann' and 'Bezirkskassierer'. |
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The Amtshauptmannschaft Bautzen — the district administrative authority centered on the Upper Lusatian city of Bautzen — issued this note during the acute inflation emergency of 1922, when municipal and district bodies across Germany were authorized to issue Notgeld to compensate for the chronic shortage of Reichsbank currency in circulation. Stengel & Co. in Dresden were primarily known as a fine art and photographic postcard publisher, which made them an unusual but not unprecedented choice for emergency currency work during this period.