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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Burg bei Magdeburg |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in violet-purple on cream paper, with a central underprint vignette in olive-grey showing a panoramic townscape of Burg. At upper centre, the issuer's name "STADT BURG" is set in large Gothic lettering above the subtitle "Bez. Magdeburg", with the denomination "50 000 000 Mark" to the upper left. A circular official seal of the Magistrat der Stadt Burg, bearing a castle tower vignette, appears at upper right. The denomination in ornate Gothic script "Fünfzig Millionen" spans the centre of the note, below which the date "Burg, 5. X. 1923" and the issuing authority "Der Magistrat" appear alongside a manuscript signature. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 000 000 Mark STADT BURG Bez. Magdeburg FÜNFZIG MILLIONEN Bis auf weiteres gültig im Kreise Jerichow I. Der Ablauf der Gültigkeit wird amtlich bekanntgegeben. Burg, 5. X. 1923. Der Magistrat. MAGISTRAT DER STADT BURG A. Hopfer, Burg b. 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.