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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Annweiler (City of Annweiler) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Issued as a Jubiläumsausgabe (jubilee issue) commemorating the granting of town rights on 14 September 1219, the note is printed in blue and orange on plain paper. The central vignette bears the circular medieval seal of Annweiler, flanked on either side by large numeral-50 corner ornaments with geometric guilloche patterns, while the denomination "Fünfzig Millionen Mark" is rendered in bold Gothic blackletter script across the centre. The issue date "Annweiler, den 14. September 1923" appears below the serial number box, with manuscript signatures of the Bürgermeister and the Stadteinnehmer at lower left and lower right respectively. |
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| Reverse lettering | FÜNFZIG MILLIONEN MARK Annweiler FÜNFZIG MILLIONEN MARK |
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Annweiler am Trifels, a small town in the Palatinate, issued this 50-million Mark note at the absolute peak of the Weimar hyperinflation spiral — by late 1923, German municipal authorities were printing emergency currency (Notgeld) faster than the Reichsbank could supply denominations large enough to be useful. The Stadtgemeinde had no choice; without locally issued scrip, ordinary commerce ground to a halt within days.
At 50 million Mark, this note would have purchased roughly what a single Mark bought two years earlier. Printed locally in Annweiler itself, production quality was predictably limited by whatever press and paper stock the town could source on short notice.