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50 000 000 000 Mark Reichsbanknote
| Issuer | Reichsbank |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark teal on a pale green ground, the obverse is dominated by the denomination legend 'Fünfzig Milliarden Mark' set in heavy blackletter type across the upper field, below the title 'Reichsbanknote'. A broad horizontal guilloche band in teal occupies the centre, overlaid with the redemption text and date 'Berlin, den 26. Oktober 1923', with the issuing authority 'Reichsbankdirektorium' rendered in spaced roman lettering beneath. Two circular Reichsbank eagle seals flank the lower field, between which twelve facsimile signatures of the Direktorium members appear in three rows, and a bold numeral '50' is positioned at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Reichsbanknote Fünfzig Milliarden Mark zahlt die Reichsbankhauptkasse in Berlin gegen diese Banknote dem Einlieferer. Vom 1. Februar 1924 ab kann diese Banknote aufgerufen und unter Umtausch gegen andere gesetzliche Zahlungsmittel eingezogen werden Berlin, den 26. Oktober 1923 Reichsbankdirektorium 50 |
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By late 1923, German hyperinflation had rendered denomination design nearly meaningless — the Reichsbank was issuing notes with face values that would have been unimaginable just three years earlier, and the 50 Milliarden Mark note was among the last of the astronomical denominations before the Rentenmark stabilization of November 1923 brought the crisis to an abrupt, engineered halt. The Reichsdruckerei was printing around the clock, often on one side only to save time, with quality and consistency sacrificed entirely to throughput.
Notes from this series frequently show uneven ink distribution and slight misregistration — not errors in the collector sense, but the inevitable consequence of industrial-scale emergency production. A note that bought a loaf of bread in the morning might not cover the same purchase by afternoon.