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50 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtverwaltung Stuttgart (City Administration of Stuttgart) |
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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 | Typographically printed in dark purple and green on cream paper within a decorative ruled border with hatched corner ornaments, the note presents the large green numeral "50" at the left and the issuer's name "STADTVERWALTUNG STUTTGART" in a curved banner across the upper field, with an anti-counterfeiting warning strip at the top margin. At centre-right, the circular green seal of the Stadtgemeinde Stuttgart bearing the prancing horse of the Stuttgart civic arms is accompanied by a red serial number, below which the issue date "STUTTGART 20. OKTOBER 1923" is flanked by two manuscript signatures above the titles OBERBÜRGERMEISTER and STADTPFLEGER. The full denomination is spelled out in large bold letterpress type "FÜNFZIG MILLIARDEN MARK" within a solid dark panel at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | NACHAHMUNG ODER FÄLSCHUNG STRAFBAR 50 STADTVERWALTUNG STUTTGART STADT-KASSENSCHEIN FÜR 50 MILLIARDEN MARK OBERBÜRGERMEISTER STADTPFLEGER STUTTGART 20. OKTOBER 1923 FÜNFZIG MILLIARDEN MARK |
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Stuttgart's city administration issued this note during the terminal phase of Weimar hyperinflation, when municipal and regional authorities across Germany were authorized to produce Notgeld to meet acute cash shortages caused by the Reichsbank's inability to print fast enough. By late 1923, the face value of fifty billion marks was barely sufficient for a newspaper — if that. The denomination itself is the historical record; no annotation is needed.
Local issues from this period were typically printed by whatever commercial press was available on short notice, which accounts for the variable paper quality and inconsistent ink registration seen across the Stuttgart municipal series.