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500 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Liebenwerda |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Designer(s) | Rohrs |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein des Kreises Liebenwerda über Fünfhundert Mark Als gesetzliches Zahlungsmittel genehmigt vom Reichsfinanzministerium durch Erlaß vom 16. Sept. 1922 Liebenwerda, den 16. Sept. 1922 Der Kreisausschuß des Kreises Liebenwerda Ausgabe B |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a symmetrical heraldic composition arranged in two rows of three municipal coats of arms, each labelled with the name of its respective town: Liebenwerda (tower vignette), Ortrand (lion passant), and Elsterwerda (bird on nest) in the upper row, and Uebigau (tower), Mühlberg (lion with monogram), and Wahrenbrück (gate tower) below. A bold central banner repeats the denomination 'Fünfhundert Mark' in white Fraktur script on a dark ground. Validity and redemption conditions are inscribed in the upper corners, counterfeiting warnings appear at the lower flanks, and the printer's imprint 'Ziehlke Zinkdruck Liebenwerda' and the designer credit 'Entw.: Ruits Rohrs' are noted at the lower margins. |
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Kreisausschuss des Kreises Liebenwerda was the county administrative committee for Bad Liebenwerda, a small district in what is now southern Brandenburg. Like hundreds of similar local authorities across Germany in 1922, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — as the Reichsbank struggled to keep pace with accelerating inflation. These county-level 500 Mark notes filled a genuine transactional void, not a collector market, though by mid-1922 the denomination was already losing ground to prices rising faster than the presses could respond.
Ziehlke Zinkdruck printed this locally, in the same town that issued it — an unusual degree of self-containment for a Notgeld issue. The zinc-print process was cheaper and faster than lithography, which accounts for the relatively modest production values.