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50 000 000 000 Mark Haslach, Hausach, Schiltach and Wolfach
| Issuer | Städte Haslach, Hausach, Schiltach und Wolfach |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD der Städte Haslach, Hausach, Schiltach und Wolfach. Die Kassen der genannten Stadtgemeinden zahlen gegen diesen Gutschein im Verrechnungsweg oder, wenn möglich, in baar an den Überbringer 50 Milliarden Mark Haslach i/k., Hausach, Schiltach, Wolfach, den 1. November 1923. Bürgermeister. Bürgermeister. Bürgermeister. Bürgermeister. 50 MILLIARDEN Lit. B |
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| Protection description | Circular blue ink stamp of Stadtgemeinde Hausach applied to the reverse as an authentication mark. |
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A joint emergency issue signed by the mayors of four small Black Forest towns — Haslach, Hausach, Schiltach, and Wolfach — acting collectively because no single municipality had the standing or resources to issue at this scale alone. By autumn 1923, the Reichsbank's printing apparatus had so completely failed to keep pace with hyperinflation that towns throughout Germany were forced into cooperative Notgeld arrangements of this kind. Fifty billion marks was not an extraordinary sum by that point; it was grocery money.
The official stamp substitutes for any more sophisticated security measure — entirely typical of the period's desperation printing.