500 Mark Landesbank der Rheinprovinz

The Landesbank der Rheinprovinz was a regional public bank serving the Rhineland province, and its 1922 emergency issues were a direct response to the accelerating German inflation that had already made Reichsbank notes functionally inadequate for large transactions. Provincial and municipal banks flooded the market with Notgeld at this scale throughout 1922, ahead of the complete monetary collapse the following year.

L. Schwann was a Düsseldorf printing house better known for its publishing and fine printing work — not a specialist banknote printer — which accounts for the relatively simple security provision: a blind emboss rather than anything more technically demanding.