500 Mark

Schopfheim is a small market town in the Black Forest foothills, and by mid-1922 it was doing what hundreds of German municipalities were forced to do: printing its own emergency currency because Reichsbank notes simply weren't reaching smaller communities in sufficient volume. This Notgeld issue was locally authorised, locally printed, and locally redeemed — Gg. Uehlin's print shop was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist security press, which is why the embossed dry seal carried so much of the authentication burden.

The 500 Mark denomination places this squarely in the inflationary surge of 1922, before hyperinflation made such figures absurd within months.