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50 000 000 000 Mark Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft
| Issuer | Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 50 000 000 000 Mark (50 000 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears the full text of the payment promise in German, stating that the cashiers of the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft at Stuttgart-Untertürkheim and Sindelfingen will pay fifty billion Mark to the bearer against this voucher, with validity expiring on 22 December 1923. The text is set in a typographic layout typical of German inflation-era Notgeld, with the issuing company name and date of 2 November 1923 appearing below. The denomination figure '50 Milliarden' is integrated into the inscription. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on cream paper and carries a central vignette of an early open-top Daimler racing automobile in motion, with two occupants visible against a dynamic cloud-and-dust background rendered in fine letterpress. The denomination '50 Milliarden' appears in large stylised numerals at all four corners, rotated to fill the border zones, which are framed by an ornamental scrollwork guilloche border. Two horizontal cartouches bearing the rhyming slogan divide the upper and lower portions of the design. |
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Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft — the automaker that would merge with Benz & Cie. in 1926 to form Mercedes-Benz — issued this emergency currency during the hyperinflation peak of late 1923, when the Reichsbank could not produce legal tender fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. Large industrial employers throughout Germany were legally permitted to issue notgeld payable to their own workers as wages, essentially functioning as a private paymaster in the absence of usable state money.
Fifty billion marks. By November 1923, that sum would not have purchased a postage stamp.