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500 Mark Braunschweigische Staatsbank
| Issuer | Braunschweigische Staatsbank |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Size | 160 × 105 mm |
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| Obverse description | Blue and black letterpress note with a light blue guilloche underprint throughout. At upper left, the Brunswick coat of arms vignette shows a rearing white horse on a dark hatched shield. To the right, the title 'Braunschweigisches Notgeld' appears in Gothic script at the top, with the large denomination 'Fünfhundert Mark' in bold blackletter below. At lower left, the numeral '500' and 'Mark' are rendered in ornate Gothic figures within a bordered panel, while the right half carries the payment obligation text, place and date 'Braunschweig den 1. Oktober 1922', issuer name 'Braunschweigische Staatsbank', and the manuscript signatures of the Direktorium beneath. |
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| Reverse lettering | Braunschweigisches Notgeld. 500 Fünfhundert Mark. Braunschweigische Staatsbank. dieser Schein verliert zwei Monate nach dem in den Braunschweigischen Anzeigen bekanntgegebenen Ausgabetermin seine Gültigkeit. Serie 1. |
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The Braunschweigische Staatsbank was one of the smaller German regional banks still issuing its own paper currency during the hyperinflation spiral of 1922. By this point the Reichsbank had effectively lost control of the money supply, and regional institutions, municipalities, and even private firms were flooding the market with emergency and inflationary issues to keep wage payments moving. This note belongs to that wave.
Wendt Kunstdruck, based in Brunswick, handled both design execution and printing locally — Günther Clausen's involvement places it among the more deliberately crafted regional issues of the period rather than the purely utilitarian emergency printings churned out by jobbing presses elsewhere.