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50 000 000 000 Mark Amt Hattingen-Land
| Issuer | Amtskasse des Amtes Hattingen-Land |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 161 x 89 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DES AMTES HATTINGEN-LAND RUHR BURGRUINE ALTENDORF im Amte Hattingen-Land um 1300 Sitz der Ritter von Altendorpe, um 1600 der Familie Mumm v. Schwarzenstein, verfallen im vorigen Jahrhundert. 50 MILLIARDEN MARK Fünfzig Milliarden Mark ZAHLT DIE AMTSKASSE DES AMTES HATTINGEN-LAND DEM EINLIEFERER DIESES SCHEINES. WINZ, DEN 1. NOV. 1923. DER AMTMANN: DER BEIGEORDNETE: GÜLTIG BIS OKTOBER 1924 FRÜHERE EINZIEHUNG VORBEHALTEN FÜNFZIG MILLIARDEN MARK |
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| Reverse lettering | FÜNFZIG 50 MILLIARDEN MARK Wo Kuohlen ligget un Eiffen waßt, Do waßt ok Lu, de dorbi paßt. Fünfzig Milliarden Mark 50 MILLIARDEN MARK |
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Hattingen-Land was one of hundreds of German district administrations forced into emergency currency printing during the hyperinflation peak of late 1923, when the Reichsmark's collapse made denominations that would have seemed absurd a year earlier not just necessary but already obsolete by the time notes left the press. The Amtskasse — essentially the district cashier's office — was not a bank and had no business issuing currency, but the breakdown of centralized monetary supply left local authorities with no alternative.
J.H. Born in Elberfeld was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist in banknote production. At this scale of output and denomination, security features were beside the point.