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| 表面の説明 | The obverse is printed in purple on a pale pink guilloche underprint ground, with a fine geometric lozenge-pattern border running the full perimeter. The issuing authority legend 'Kreis Hofgeismar' is set at the top in Gothic script above a central denomination vignette reading 'Gut für 50 Milliarden Mark' in bold Gothic lettering, with the serial number printed in red at lower right. Below the denomination, a redemption clause and the issue date 'Hofgeismar, 11. Aug. 1923' appear alongside the manuscript signatures of the district committee. |
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| 表面の銘文 | Kreis Hofgeismar. Gut für 50 Milliarden Mark Nr 032079 Einzulösen bei der Kreissparkasse Hofgeismar. Hofgeismar, 11. Aug. 1923. Der Kreisausschuß: AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT FÜR DRUCK UND VERLAG VORM. GEB. DÖTTNER, CASSEL |
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Hofgeismar was a small district in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau, and like hundreds of German municipalities in late 1923, its Kreisausschuss was forced into the absurd position of issuing its own emergency currency — Notgeld — denominated in figures that had become meaningless almost as soon as the ink dried. Fifty billion Mark was not an unusual face value for October–November 1923; notes of this denomination were sometimes worth less than a loaf of bread by the day after issue.
The printer, Aktiengesellschaft für Druck und Verlag (formerly Ger. Döttner) in Kassel, handled inflation Notgeld for multiple Hessian issuers during this period, which accounts for the family resemblance seen across several district issues from the region.