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50 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Landkreis Bielefeld (District of Bielefeld, Prussian province of Westphalia) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 50 000 000 000 Marks (50 000 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette in black and green offset letterpress showing three figures in period dress around a table — a seated woman, a standing woman in a bonnet, and a man in a long coat. Large Gothic numeral '50' appears at each corner, with 'Milliarden Mark' in blackletter script along the top and bottom borders. Issuer inscription and serial number typeset above the vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Milliarden Mark 50 NOTGELD LANDKREIS BIELEFELD 50 Milliarden Mark 50 Offseidruck G. Thomas, Bielefeld. |
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One of hundreds of emergency currency denominations printed by German local authorities during the hyperinflation of late 1923, when the Reichsbank could not supply notes fast enough to keep pace with price collapse. By the time fifty-billion-mark notes were being issued at the district level, a single loaf of bread in some German cities cost more than the entire pre-war national debt. G. Thomas was a local Bielefeld commercial printer pressed into monetary service — not a security printer — which is why the production quality rarely matches the astronomical face value.
Bielefeld's district administration was unusually prolific in Notgeld output across multiple hyperinflation series.