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50 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Trossingen (Municipality of Trossingen, Württemberg) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld über Fünfzig Milliarden Mark Die Gemeinde Trossingen zahlt dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines durch ihre Kassen fünfzig Milliarden. Bekanntmachung über den Zeitpunkt der Einlösung dieses Notgeldes erfolgt im Staatsanzeiger für Württemberg und in der Trossinger Zeitung. Trossingen, den 24. Oktober 1923. Für die Gemeinde: Schultheiß: Gemeindepfleger: (Translation: Emergency money over fifty billion marks The municipality of Trossingen will pay the depositor of this note fifty billion marks through its cash offices. Announcement regarding the time of redemption of this emergency money will be made in the State Gazette for Württemberg and in the Trossinger Newspaper. Trossingen, October 24, 1923. For the municipality: Mayor: Municipal Treasurer:) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted, plain cream paper, showing bleed-through of the obverse text and underprint pattern. |
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Trossingen issued this 50-billion Mark note at the absolute peak of Weimar hyperinflation, when municipal governments across Germany were printing their own emergency currency — Notgeld — because the Reichsbank simply could not supply denominations large enough for daily transactions. By late 1923, a loaf of bread cost billions. The Gemeindepfleger (municipal treasurer) Hartmann and the Schultheiß Raller signed off on notes their own citizens would spend within hours of receipt, the purchasing power evaporating faster than the ink dried.
Printed locally by Math. Birk's Buchdruckerei, the production quality reflects a small-town print shop working under extraordinary pressure rather than any specialist security printer.