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50 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Unna (Notgeld) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | W. Sauerland, Unna |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided pink paper notgeld with a bold letterpress denomination "50 Milliarden Mark" in large blackletter script at centre. A decorative border of repeating cross-and-circle ornaments frames the note, with the validity clause printed along the top edge. Two official round cachets are struck to the right of the signature panel. |
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| Reverse description | Printed on pink paper with black letterpress text; this note appears to be single-sided, with the reverse left blank. |
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Issued in October 1923 at the absolute peak of Weimar hyperinflation, this 50-billion-Mark Notgeld from the Unna municipal authority represents one of the more extreme denominations produced before the Rentenmark stabilization ended the crisis in November of that year. Three signatures were required — two from the Magistrat and one from the Amtmann of the combined Unna-Kamen district office — a procedural formality that speaks to how seriously local authorities treated emergency currency issuance even as the numbers on the notes became almost comically large.
W. Sauerland was a local Unna printer, not a specialist currency house. At this stage of the inflation, speed mattered far more than security features.