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500 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt- und Landkreis Aachen |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Printer | La Ruelle'sche Lithographische Anstalt, Inh. Jos. Deterre & Sohn, Aachen, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher printed in dark blue on a pale green guilloche underprint, with an elaborate wavy-rule border and four corner rosettes each carrying the numeral '500'. The centre bears the denomination in large Gothic (Fraktur) blackletter script 'Fünfhundert Mark', over a tonal '500' underprint numeral, flanked by the issuing authority title at the top and a three-paragraph redemption clause below. A serial-number box is positioned at the top centre, with two circular official seals — one for the city and one for the district — flanking two manuscript signature lines dated 'Aachen, den 6. Oktober 1922', and the denomination repeated vertically in framed panels on both lateral margins. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt= und Landkreis Aachen. Gutschein über Fünfhundert Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von allen öffentlichen Kassen des Stadt= und Landkreises Aachen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit vier Wochen nach Aufruf durch die öffentlichen Blätter des Stadt= und Landkreises Aachen. Aachen, den 6. Oktober 1922. Der Oberbürgermeister. Der Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses. Gutschein über 500 Mark. |
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Aachen's municipal authorities resorted to issuing high-denomination notgeld in 1922 as hyperinflation rendered Reichsbank notes functionally useless almost as fast as they could be printed. The Stadt- und Landkreis — covering both the city and surrounding district — issued jointly, an administrative arrangement that reflected how thoroughly the crisis had overwhelmed normal institutional boundaries.
La Ruelle'sche Lithographische Anstalt was a local Aachen firm, which meant production timelines could be compressed when denominations needed to jump again within weeks.