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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Pirna |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | Krey und Sommerlad, Niedersedlitz, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-toned note with a light guilloche underprint throughout. The denomination 'Fünfzig Millionen' is set in large Gothic blackletter type across the centre, above a block of text in German confirming the redemption terms. The issuing authority 'Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Pirna' appears in bold at the lower centre, flanked by two facsimile signatures above the titles 'Amtshauptmann' and 'Kasseninspektor', with a red serial number and series letter 'REIHE A' between them. The note is dated 'Pirna, den 24. September 1923' and bears the legend 'Zugelassen vom Reichsfinanzministerium' at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on a salmon guilloche ground, with an oval landscape vignette at centre showing a panoramic view of the Elbe valley with the Lilienstein rock formation rising above the river, framed by trees in the foreground. Denomination numerals '50' appear in large outlined type to the left and right of the vignette, each above the inscription 'MILLIONEN MARK'. A German anti-counterfeiting warning legend runs across the lower portion, and the printer's imprint 'KREYU.SOMMERLAD NIEDERSEDLITZ-DR.' is set at the foot. |
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Pirna's district authority — the Amtshauptmannschaft — issued this 50-million Mark note at the peak of the Weimar hyperinflation, when municipal and district bodies across Saxony were printing emergency currency faster than the Reichsbank could supply legal tender. By the time a note at this denomination reached circulation in mid-to-late 1923, its purchasing power was already eroding within hours of issue.
Krey und Sommerlad in Niedersedlitz, a printing house otherwise occupied with commercial jobwork, handled several Saxon notgeld contracts during this period. The watermarked paper was a gesture toward legitimacy in an instrument that would be worthless within weeks.