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50 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirks-Sparkasse Traunstein |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Off-white note with a salmon-red guilloche underprint and brown and green letterpress text. A circular purple official stamp of the issuing institution is applied to the centre field, flanked by two manuscript signatures. The denomination and issuer details are printed in dark brown Gothic script. |
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| Obverse lettering | Bezirks-Sparkasse Traunstein Gutschein über Fünfzig Milliarden Mark Traunstein den 31. Oktober 1923 Bezirks-Sparkasse Traunstein. (Translation: District Savings Bank of Traunstein, voucher for Fifty Billion Mark, Traunstein, 31 October 1923, District Savings Bank of 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.