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50 000 000 000 Mark Kreis Dinslaken
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Dinslaken |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 154.5 × 89.5 mm |
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| Obverse description | The face of the note presents the denomination in black letterpress text within a central frame, with the full legal text of the obligation printed in green ink. A vertical serial number appears to the right of the central frame. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Dinslaken was a rural administrative district (Kreis) in the Rhine Province, and like hundreds of similar bodies across Germany in late 1923, its Kreisausschuss was forced into the notgeld business not by choice but by arithmetic — the Reichsbank simply could not print fast enough to keep wages payable. By the time denominations reached fifty billion Mark, the inflationary spiral had compressed the entire lifespan of a note to days or even hours before it lost meaningful purchasing power.
The watermarked paper is the one detail worth noting here. Most district-level emergency issues at this denomination used whatever stock was available; the presence of a security substrate suggests this was printed on pre-ordered or commercially sourced paper rather than improvised office stock.