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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 | Landscape-format note framed by an elaborate guilloche border with four ornamental corner vignettes each bearing the numeral '500' in Gothic script. The central field presents the denomination 'Fünfhundert Mark' in large blackletter type over a fine guilloche underprint, flanked by engraved panels with stylised rosette motifs. The lower portion carries the place and date of issue, the full title of the issuing authority, and two manuscript signature lines beneath the printed role designations 'Amtshauptmann' and 'Bezirkskassierer'. |
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The Amtshauptmannschaft Bautzen was a rural administrative district in Saxony, and its decision to issue notgeld at the 500 Mark level in 1922 reflects how rapidly hyperinflation was forcing even mid-tier regional authorities into emergency currency production. Stengel & Co. in Dresden were primarily known as a fine-art postcard and reproduction printer — their involvement in notgeld was commercially opportunistic rather than a specialist printing contract, which occasionally shows in register quality across the series.
Bautzen, as the administrative seat of Upper Lusatia, had a distinct Sorbian cultural minority, which sometimes influenced local notgeld imagery of the period — though whether that applies here depends on the specific design variant under DeNG 4#210.2.