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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Frankfurt am Main (City of Frankfurt am Main) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher printed in dark red-brown on pale paper, with a dense guilloche border framing the entire face. The issuer legend "STADT FRANKFURT AM MAIN" runs along the top and bottom margins within the guilloche underprint, with large mirror-image denomination numerals at each lateral edge. The central text field carries the bold letterpress inscription "GUTSCHEIN ÜBER 50 MILLIONEN MARK" above a two-line redemption clause, the issuing authority "DER MAGISTRAT", the date "28. SEPTEMBER 1923", and a manuscript signature; the designer's name "HENZE" appears vertically at the left inner border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same red-brown palette, with a guilloche lattice background and ornate rosette vignettes flanking a central oval medallion. Within the medallion, a fine letterpress vignette shows the façade of Frankfurt's Römer (the historic city hall), with its characteristic stepped gables and the fountain in the foreground. The denomination "FUENFZIG MILLIONEN" is displayed on a horizontal banner across the centre, with the issuer inscription "GUTSCHEIN DER STADT FRANKFURT AM MAIN" arranged around the composition. |
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Frankfurt am Main was among dozens of German municipalities forced to issue their own emergency currency — Notgeld — as the Reichsbank's printing capacity buckled under hyperinflation in 1923. By the time this 50-million-Mark note entered circulation, the denomination itself was already being outpaced by daily price movements; notes of this face value had a practical lifespan measured in days before purchasing power made them economically irrelevant.
C. Naumann's Druckerei was a local Frankfurt commercial printer, not a specialist security press. That distinction matters — municipal Notgeld of this period varies considerably in print quality and paper stock, and Naumann-printed issues show corresponding inconsistencies across surviving examples.