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50 000 000 000 Mark Reichsbahndirektion
| Issuer | Reichsbahn-Direktion Dresden |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset notgeld on tan paper with a red guilloche border framing the entire face. The denomination '50·000·000·000' is printed in large black numerals at the top, flanked by a letter prefix and a red serial number, beneath which the issuer inscription 'Gutschein der Reichsbahn-Direktion Dresden' appears in Gothic blackletter type. The central text block carries the redemption clause in three columns, the date 'Dresden, den 26. Oktober 1923', and the authority legend 'Reichsbahn-Direktion', with the circular official stamp of the Reichsbahndirektion Dresden bearing the imperial eagle at centre, accompanied by two manuscript signatures below the titles 'Der Präsident' and 'Hauptkasse'. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, showing plain tan paper with visible fold lines and minor soiling consistent with circulation. |
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The Reichsbahn-Direktion Dresden was one of dozens of regional railway administrations that issued emergency currency during the hyperinflationary collapse of 1923. German railway directorates had both the institutional authority and the pressing practical need to pay wages — by late 1923, workers demanded daily payment simply to buy food before the mark lost further value overnight. These notgeld issues were a payroll instrument first, circulating currency second.
The fifty-billion-mark denomination places this note in the final, most extreme phase of the inflation, when the Reichsbank itself struggled to print fast enough. It was superseded within weeks by the Rentenmark stabilization of November 1923.