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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Solingen (City of Solingen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld in navy blue on a dense guilloche underprint in grey-gold, with the denomination in large Fraktur blackletter at centre. The city seal of Solingen appears twice in the lower corners as circular blue stamps, and the serial number with series letter is printed at lower left. Denomination numerals repeat in plain type in the top and bottom border panels; counterfeiting warning in Roman capitals along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse in pale grey-blue, showing bleed-through of the obverse guilloche underprint and a faint central vignette of a standing armoured figure, visible as a show-through impression from the obverse printing. |
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Solingen printed its own emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923 — this 50 million Mark note is a product of the Notgeld system, in which German municipalities were legally permitted to issue their own paper money when the Reichsbank could no longer supply denominations large enough for everyday transactions. By mid-1923, that figure of 50 million was itself obsolete within weeks of printing.
Hermann Rabitz was a local commercial art printer, not a security printing house. That distinction matters: Notgeld from municipal printers like Rabitz was produced without sophisticated anti-counterfeiting measures, relying instead on rapid denomination obsolescence as its primary deterrent.