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50 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreise Kreuznach und Meisenheim / Stadt Kreuznach (Prussian Rhine Province) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in rose-pink on cream paper, the note is framed by a scalloped guilloche border with a diamond-pattern outer edge. A large central vignette of grapevine foliage forms an underprint behind the denomination legend 'Fünfzig Milliarden Mark' rendered in bold Gothic blackletter script. The issuing authority is inscribed at the top in Fraktur lettering, with a left-side panel containing validity text and the serial number printed vertically; three official circular dry-seal stamps appear at the lower centre alongside manuscript signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | Kreise Kreuznach u. Meisenheim Stadt Kreuznach Fünfzig Milliarden Mark Die Einlösung dieses Scheines erfolgt bei allen öffentlichen Kassen. Der Zeitpunkt, mit dem der Schein seine Gültigkeit verliert, wird öffentlich bekannt gemacht werden. Kreuznach u. Meisenheim, den 15. Oktober 1923. Der Landrat: i.V. Der Landrat: i.V. Der Bürgermeister der Stadt Kreuznach: Umlaufsfähig im ganzen Regierungsbezirk Coblenz. Gültig bis zum 1. April 1924. E No 009942 |
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Kreise Kreuznach und Meisenheim issued this note jointly with the Stadt Kreuznach during the hyperinflationary peak of autumn 1923, when the Reichsmark had collapsed so completely that local authorities across Germany were legally authorized — and practically compelled — to print their own emergency currency. The fifty-billion denomination places it squarely in the final, most deranged phase of that collapse: by November 1923, a single US dollar was exchangeable for over four trillion marks.
Local Notgeld at these denominations was typically printed on whatever paper stock was available and circulated only briefly before being rendered worthless by the next wave of inflation. The Rentenmark stabilization in November 1923 made notes like this one obsolete almost immediately after issue.