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50 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisamt Bingen (District Office of Bingen) |
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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 | Plain typeset Notgeld voucher on buff paper, with the denomination numeral '50' printed as a large brown underprint at centre. A vertical left panel, bordered in blue, carries the validity clause in vertical text. At lower left, a heraldic shield vignette shows an armoured knight on horseback. The denomination is set in ornate blue script lettering flanked by decorative flourishes, with the issuing authority text, date '23. Oktober 1923', and a manuscript signature of the Kreisamt official printed at right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie A Nr. [serial] 50 Milliarden Gutschein des Kreises Bingen über Fünfzig Milliarden Mark Wird bei der Kreiskasse in Zahlung genommen und nach dem 1. April 1924 zur Rückzahlung aufgerufen. Nachahmung wird strafrechtlich verfolgt. Bingen am Rhein, 23. Oktober 1923. Kreisamt Bingen. Umlauffähig im ganzen besetzten hessischen Gebiet. :: Gültig bis 1. April 1924. Vincenz Pekarek, Bingen. |
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Kreisamt Bingen was one of hundreds of German district and municipal authorities that resorted to printing their own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the hyperinflationary collapse of 1923. By the time fifty-billion-mark denominations became necessary, the Reichsbank's own presses could not keep pace with the devaluation. Local printers like Vincenz Pekarek, operating out of Bingen am Rhein, were pressed into service to fill the gap.
Pekarek was a local commercial printer, not a security printing house. The absence of specialized anti-counterfeiting measures was largely irrelevant by this point — the notes depreciated faster than anyone could profitably forge them.