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50 000 000 000 Mark overprint on 5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Mannheim (City of Mannheim) |
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| Year | 1924 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | FÜNF MILLIONEN MARK 5 000 000 Fünfzig Milliarden Mark zahlt die STADT MANNHEIM vom 1. Januar 1924 ab bei Übergabe dieses Scheines. DER STADTRAT. Dieser Schein wird bei Zahlungen an die Stadtkasse auch vor dem 1. Januar 1924 angenommen. Der Endpunkt der Einlösungsfrist wird vom Stadtrat festgesetzt und in den Mannheimer Tageszeitungen veröffentlicht. |
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| Protection type | Embossed seal |
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By late 1923, German municipal emergency money — Notgeld — had entered its most absurd phase. Stadt Mannheim, like dozens of other cities, simply could not print new denominations fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation, so existing lower-denomination stock was overprinted rather than discarded. This note is a product of that triage: a 5,000,000 Mark note rendered tenfold obsolete almost immediately, then stamped with a 50,000,000,000 Mark value to stay viable for perhaps another week of purchasing power.
The embossed municipal seal was the primary — arguably only — anti-counterfeiting measure, a thin guarantee of authenticity at a moment when the currency itself was worth almost nothing.