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50 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Regierungsbezirk Trier and Provinz Birkenfeld |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 50 000 000 000 Mark (50 000 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed Notgeld note in red and violet on white paper, with an elaborate guilloche border framing the central text panel. The denomination 'Fünfzig Milliarden Mark' is set in bold decorative Gothic typeface at the top of the central field, above a multi-line redemption text in German script referencing the public treasuries of Reg.-Bez. Trier and Provinz Birkenfeld, dated Trier, 31. Oktober 1923. A serial number appears at lower left beside facsimile signatures of the issuing committee ('Der Ausschuss'), with the printer's imprint 'Schaar & Dathe, A.G., Trier' at the bottom; a vertical strip at left, framed in a black-ruled box, states the note's validity and circulation area, while the numeral '50.000.000.000' is printed vertically in large figures along the right margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | FÜNFZIG MILLIARDEN MARK 50.000.000.000 |
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Issued in October 1923 at the absolute peak of Weimar hyperinflation, this fifty-billion-mark note is a product of regional emergency — Regierungsbezirk Trier and Provinz Birkenfeld were among dozens of German administrative districts forced to print their own Notgeld when the Reichsbank could no longer keep denominations current with the collapsing exchange rate. Schaar & Dathe A.G. was a local Trier commercial printer, not a security press, pressed into service because speed mattered far more than forgery resistance.
By the time notes like this reached circulation, they were often obsolete within days.