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50 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirks-Sparkasse Traunstein |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 50 000 000 000 Mark (50 000 000 000) |
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| Reverse description | Off-white note with a salmon-red arabesque guilloche border and underprint. The central vignette is a green letterpress panoramic view of the town of Traunstein, with the church tower rising against a backdrop of Alpine peaks; a foliate device appears at lower left and a Bavarian lozenge shield at lower right. A serial number in brown is printed at the top centre within an ornamental cartouche. |
| Reverse lettering | Für die Einlösung haftet die Bezirksgemeinde Traunstein mit ihrem vollen Vermögen. Einlösung spätestens 4 Wochen nach ergangenem Aufruf in den Tagesblättern des Bezirks. Oberbayer. Genossenschaftsdruckerei Traunstein (Translation: The district municipality of Traunstein is fully liable for redemption with its entire assets. Redemption no later than 4 weeks after the call published in the district daily newspapers. Oberbayerische Genossenschaftsdruckerei Traunstein.) |
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Traunstein's Bezirks-Sparkasse was one of dozens of Bavarian savings banks forced into emergency currency production during the hyperinflationary peak of autumn 1923, when the Reichsbank's own supply chains collapsed under the sheer volume of denominations required. By the time fifty-billion-mark notes were necessary for routine transactions, the Oberbayerische Genossenschaftsdruckerei — a regional cooperative press better known for agricultural trade publications — was printing what amounted to same-day-expiry paper.
The note's local printer and local issuer are genuinely the same town, an unusual alignment that cuts out the distribution delays that plagued many Notgeld issues from this period.