Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
500 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Worms (City of Worms) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Stadt Worms Gutschein über Fünfhundert Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von allen städtischen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit mit dem Zeitpunkt, der demnächst in den Wormser Zeitungen öffentlich bekannt gemacht wird. Die Stadt haftet für die Einlösung. Der Oberbürgermeister: Worms, den 16. Oktober 1922. |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Embossed seal |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Worms was among hundreds of German municipalities forced into emergency currency production as hyperinflation demolished the Reichsmark's purchasing power in the early 1920s. This Notgeld issue — city-administered, locally printed, valid only within the issuing municipality's jurisdiction — was a stopgap against the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that preceded the full hyperinflationary collapse of 1923.
The embossed seal was the city's primary authentication mechanism, a low-tech solution that nonetheless deterred casual counterfeiting at a time when official oversight was essentially nonexistent. By mid-1923, 500 Mark would buy almost nothing.