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50 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt- und Landkreis Aachen |
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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 | Printed in blue and green on plain paper, the note is framed by a double-ruled border with an intricate guilloche lace pattern running along all four sides. The centre carries a large underprint numeral '50' in pale green, over which the denomination 'FÜNFZIG MILLIARDEN MARK' is printed in bold Gothic letterpress type. Above the denomination, the issuing authority 'Stadt- und Landkreis Aachen' and series designation 'Serie A' appear in Gothic script alongside the serial number, while two circular official seals flank the manuscript signatures of the Oberbürgermeister and the Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses in the lower portion. A vertical left-margin panel, bordered separately, carries the validity and circulation inscriptions in upright roman type. |
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| Obverse lettering | Umlauffähig im ganzen Regierungsbezirk Aachen. Gültig bis zum 1. April 1924. Stadt- und Landkreis Aachen Serie A Gutschein über * FÜNFZIG MILLIARDEN MARK Dieser Gutschein wird von allen öffentlichen Kassen des Stadt- und Landkreises Aachen in Zahlung genommen. Aachen, 12. Oktober 1923 Der Oberbürgermeister i. V. Der Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses |
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Aachen's municipal and district authority issued this 50-billion Mark note during the hyperinflation peak of late 1923, when German notgeld denominations were escalating so rapidly that printing plates became obsolete within days of use. Aachen sat in the occupied Rhineland under Allied administration at the time, which created an additional layer of bureaucratic peculiarity — local emergency currency had to function within a territory where the Reichsmark's authority was already compromised by both occupation policy and monetary collapse.
Printed locally by the Aachener Verlags- und Druckerei GmbH, the note was never intended to outlast the stabilization of November 1923, and it didn't.