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5000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtrat Mindelheim (City Council of Mindelheim) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 5000 Marks |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Fünftaußend Mark berrechenbar gegen unter Guthaben bei der Städt. Sparkasse Mindelheim gegen Rückgabe dieses Scheines spätestens am 1. April 1923. Dieser Gutschein kann innerhalb oblger Laufzeit mit den Banken, Bankiers und Sparkassen verrechnet werden. Mindelheim 1. Dezember 1922. Stadtrat Mindelheim: Stadtkasse Mindelheim: |
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| Reverse lettering | (Translation: Voucher for five thousand marks deductible against any balance at the Mindelheim Municipal Savings Bank upon return of this voucher no later than April 1, 1923. This voucher can be used for settlement with banks, bankers, and savings banks within the above term. Mindelheim December 1, 1922. Mindelheim City Council: Mindelheim City Treasury:) |
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Mindelheim is a small market town in Swabia, and its city council issuing emergency currency at the 5,000 Mark level places this note squarely in the German inflation spiral of late 1922, when municipal and commercial bodies across Bavaria printed Notgeld simply to keep wages moving. The Bundesdruckerei — formerly the Reichsdruckerei — was an unusual choice for a town this size; most comparable Bavarian municipalities used regional printers, and commissioning Berlin's state printing works suggests either a bulk procurement arrangement or a consortium order shared across several Swabian issuers.
By the time notes of this denomination were printed, 5,000 Mark bought roughly what a few pfennig had managed two years earlier.