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500 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Cuxhaven (City of Cuxhaven) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 4#950.2 |
| Obverse description | Printed in blue and red on cream paper, the obverse carries a central vignette of the Cuxhaven harbour with industrial port structures rendered in letterpress. The denomination "Fünfhundert" is set in large Gothic blackletter script across the upper half, flanked by two heraldic shields — the Hamburg coat of arms to the left and the Cuxhaven civic arms to the right — each within scalloped cartouches. A letterpress text block below the vignette states the conditions of acceptance by the Stadtkasse and local banks, dated "Cuxhaven d. 13. Okt. 1922," with a facsimile signature of der Magistrat at lower right; the series designation "Serie B" appears in script at top left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Aushilfsschein der Stadt Cuxhaven Fünfhundert Dieser Aushilfsschein wird von der Stadtkasse und den Banken in Cuxhaven in Zahlung genommen / Umlaufszeit bis 13. Dez. 1922 Cuxhaven d. 13. Okt. 1922. der Magistrat Serie B |
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Cuxhaven's municipal administration issued this note under the emergency currency provisions that allowed German cities and towns to print their own Notgeld during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early 1920s. The Cuxhavener Volksblatt G.m.b.H. was the town's own newspaper press — not a specialist security printer — which was entirely typical of how smaller municipalities solved the problem of chronic coin and small-denomination note shortages when Reichsbank supply couldn't keep pace with demand.
At the 500 Mark level, this is late-phase Notgeld, issued when inflation had already eroded the purchasing power of earlier small-denomination emergency notes to near nothing.