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50 000 000 000 Mark Handelsverein
| Issuer | Handelsverein Bevensen und Umgebung |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Check-format Notgeld printed in black letterpress on a green and orange underprint, with a central circular guilloche vignette. The denomination "Fünfzig Milliarden Mark" is set in large bold Fraktur blackletter, with the serial number in the upper left and the value numeral "M. 50 000 000 000" at upper right. A red diagonal overprint reads "Nur zur Verrechnung"; two manuscript signatures appear at foot above the titles Vorsitzender and Schriftführer. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse in cream paper, showing strong ink bleed-through from the obverse letterpress printing. The left margin carries a vertical column of redemption text in Fraktur script, listing the participating banks and savings institutions. |
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Bevensen is a small spa town in Lower Saxony — an unlikely place to find a fifty-billion-mark emergency note, yet the inflationary spiral of late 1923 made such instruments a practical necessity even for minor provincial trade associations. The Handelsverein Bevensen und Umgebung — a local merchants' collective, not a bank — issued this Notgeld under the same desperate conditions that forced thousands of German municipalities, firms, and organizations to print their own emergency currency when Reichsbank supply collapsed entirely under hyperinflation.
By the time denominations like this were circulating, the mark was losing value faster than notes could be printed and stamped.