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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Freital (City of Freital) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 50 000 000 Mark (50 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue and green on cream paper, the obverse is dominated by a large calligraphic inscription 'Fünfzig Millionen' in ornate Gothic script across the upper and central fields, with a decorative foliate vignette along the left margin in green underprint. The right half carries an intricate guilloche panel with a large numeral '50' in blue, alongside a red serial number and series letter in the upper right corner. The lower portion bears the redemption text, issuance date of 24 September 1923, the authority legend 'Der Rat der Stadt Freital', and a manuscript signature above the title 'Bürgermeister', with the printer's imprint at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | FÜNFZIG MILLIONEN MARK Wer Gutscheine nachmacht oder verfälscht, oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter 2 Jahren bestraft |
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Freital was a newly consolidated city — formed only in 1921 from the merger of several industrial communities south of Dresden — and by August 1923 its municipal government was issuing emergency Notgeld in denominations that would have been unimaginable two years earlier. The fifty-million mark note belongs to the hyperinflationary peak, when the Reichsbank's wholesale printing operations could not keep pace with wage demands and cities across Saxony turned to local printers to fill the gap.
Johannes Pässler operated out of Dresden-Neustadt and handled several Saxon municipal issues during this period. Notes from Stadt Freital are not among the more heavily documented series, and the city's brief independent existence before its eventual absorption into the greater Dresden administrative region kept its issuing history relatively contained.