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50 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Vohwinkel (Municipality of Vohwinkel, Prussian Rhine Province) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note with text-only typeset layout in a combination of Gothic blackletter and roman typefaces, printed in dark blue and red-orange. The issuer heading 'Die Stadt Vohwinkel' appears at the top in large blackletter, followed by a multi-line payment promise text. The denomination 'Fünfzig Milliarden' is set in large red-orange Gothic script across the centre, underlined by a double red rule. To the right, a red-orange rectangular dotted-border panel bears the numeral '50' above 'Milliarden Mark', with a circular watermark-style device visible behind it. The place and date 'Vohwinkel, 30. Oktober 1923' and the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature appear in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue and red-orange on cream paper and centres on a framed vignette panel. On the left within the frame stands a woodcut-style figure in academic robes gesturing toward a lectern, identified by the text as the Imperial Treasurer from Goethe's Faust, Part II; to the right is an engraved doorway labelled 'Finanzamt' with a sub-panel reading 'Steuerkasse'. The denomination 'Fünfzig Milliarden Mark' is set in red-orange Gothic lettering at the top of the frame, with 'Stadt Vohwinkel' in blackletter to the upper left. Contemporary commodity price data for 30 October 1923 runs as a typeset border around all four edges of the note, and the serial number and series designation ('Serie J1', 'No 60951') are printed vertically in red-orange on the left margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Fünfzig Milliarden Mark Stadt Vohwinkel Goethes Faust, II. Teil. Der Schatzmeister des Reiches spricht: Wir haben soviel Rechte hingegeben, daß uns auf nichts ein Recht mehr übrig bleibt. Auch auf Parteien, wie sie heißen, ist heut zu Tage kein Verlaß. Wer jetzt will seinem Nachbar helfen? Ein jeder hat für sich zu tun. Die Goldespforten sind verrammelt; ein jeder kratzt und scharrt und sammelt, und unsere Kassen bleiben leer. Preise am 30. Oktober 1923: ein Liter Wasser 2,2 Millionen, ein Pfund Salz 800 Millionen, ein Ei 2 Milliarden, ein Liter Milch 4 Milliarden, ein Pfund Kartoffeln 850 Millionen, ein Hering 900 Millionen, ein Pfund Brot 4 Milliarden, ein Pfund Schweineschmalz 15 Milliard., ein Paar Schuhsohl. 35 Milliard., ein Sarg 450 Milliard. Serie J1 No 60951 |
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