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50 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Landkreis Flensburg (District of Flensburg) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 137.0 × 94.5 mm |
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| Obverse description | Orange and black letterpress Notgeld note with large Gothic numeral '50' at both left and right edges. A quartered heraldic coat of arms of the Landkreis Flensburg occupies the upper centre, enclosed by elaborate acanthus scroll ornamental borders. The denomination 'Fünfzig Milliarden Mark' is inscribed in bold blackletter script across the centre, beneath which four lines of redemption text appear in smaller typeface, followed by the issue date and serial number in red at lower left, with a circular official stamp of the Landrat Flensburg at lower right and three handwritten signatures along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Notgeld des Landkreises Flensburg 50 Fünfzig Milliarden Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von der Kreis-Kommunalkasse in Zahlung genommen oder im Überweisungsverkehr vergütet. Einen Monat nach erfolgter öffentlicher Bekanntmachung verliert dieses Notgeld seine Gültigkeit. Flensburg, d. 3. Nov. 1923. Kreisausschußmitglieder Landrat LANDRAT FLENSBURG ENTWURF U. DRUCK H. GEISEL, FLENSBURG |
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Landkreis Flensburg sat in a peculiar political position in 1923: the district had only been confirmed as German territory two years earlier, following the 1920 plebiscite that split Schleswig between Denmark and Germany. Emergency currency issued here carries that unresolved border tension as subtext — Danish-leaning communities remained in the area, and the administrative apparatus was still consolidating when hyperinflation forced local authorities to print their own notgeld simply to keep commerce moving.
H. Geisel was a local Flensburg printer, not a specialist banknote house. At fifty billion marks, this note dates to the acute phase of the hyperinflation — October or November 1923, when denominations were climbing by orders of magnitude week to week.