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50 000 000 000 Mark Kreis Arnsberg
| Issuer | Kreisausschuß des Kreises Arnsberg (District Committee of Arnsberg) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| In circulation to | 1923 |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld des Kreises Arnsberg. Fünfzig Milliarden Mark zahlt die Kommunalkasse des Kreises Arnsberg dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines. Ausgegeben mit Genehmigung des Reichsministers der Finanzen. Arnsberg, den 24. Oktober 1923. Der Kreisausschuß des Kreises Arnsberg Nur gültig mit Dienstsiegel (Trockenstempel) des Landrats. Dieser Schein wird ungültig mit Ablauf der durch amtlichen Aufruf zu bestimmenden Frist. F. W. Becker, Arnsberg |
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| Protection type | Dry seal (embossed stamp) |
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One of hundreds of Notgeld issues flooding the Westphalian administrative system in late 1923, this 50-billion Mark piece dates from the absolute peak of the Weimar hyperinflation — by November of that year, a single US dollar exchanged for roughly 4.2 trillion Marks. District committees like Arnsberg's Kreisausschuß were printing emergency currency not out of administrative ambition but simple necessity: Reichsbank notes were arriving so far behind the devaluation curve that local governments could not meet payroll without issuing their own.
F. W. Becker was a local Arnsberg printer pressed into monetary service, not a security printing house. The embossed dry seal substituted for intaglio or watermark security that such a printer could not provide.