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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Burg bei Magdeburg |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in violet-purple on cream paper with an all-over guilloche pattern border in light tan forming a repeating floral underprint. At centre, the large numeral "50" appears above the denomination text "Millionen Mark" in Gothic script, with a decorative coat-of-arms vignette beneath. A red circular validation stamp of the "Kreisausschuss des Kreises Jerichow I" bearing a Prussian eagle is applied at centre-right, confirming the note's validity in that district. The denomination "50 000 000 M" is printed vertically along the right margin, and the serial number appears in red at the lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Millionen Mark Bis auf weiteres gültig im Kreise Jerichow I. Der Ablauf der Gültigkeit des Notgeldes wird amtlich bekanntgegeben. Wer Notgeld nachmacht oder verfälscht oder nachgemachtes oder verfälschtes sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus bestraft. Kreisausschuss des Kreises Jerichow I. 50 000 000 M |
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Burg bei Magdeburg was one of hundreds of German municipalities forced to print their own emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank simply could not produce notes fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. A face value of 50 million Mark sounds extraordinary until you remember that by late 1923, a single loaf of bread in many German cities cost several billion — making this note functionally small change within weeks of issue.
A. Hopfer was a local printer, not a specialist security press. Notgeld of this type was produced on whatever commercial equipment was available, which is why paper quality and printing registration vary so sharply across surviving examples.