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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Bad Homburg vor der Höhe (City of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Cream-coloured letterpress-printed notgeld in brown and pink tones, with a guilloche-patterned border running the full perimeter of the note. The left stub bears the denomination '50 Millionen Mark' in Gothic script alongside a vertically printed serial number and the municipal arms of Bad Homburg — a shield bearing two crossed mining picks — at the lower left. The main face carries the heading 'GUTSCHEIN DER STADT BAD HOMBURG V. D. HÖHE' above the large bold denomination 'FÜNFZIG MILLIONEN MARK', with the redemption clause, place, and date of issue centred below, and two numeral panels flanking the facsimile signatures of the Oberbürgermeister and Beigeordneter under the legend 'MAGISTRAT:'; the printer's imprint 'C. Naumann's Druckerei. Frankfurt a/M.' appears at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Millionen Mark GUTSCHEIN DER STADT BAD HOMBURG V. D. HÖHE FÜNFZIG MILLIONEN MARK Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung des Magistrats zur Einlösung. BAD HOMBURG V. D. HÖHE., den 1. Oktober 1923. MAGISTRAT: 50000000 Oberbürgermeister Beigeordneter 50000000 C. Naumann's Druckerei. Frankfurt a/M. |
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Bad Homburg's 50-million Mark notgeld dates from the absolute peak of Weimar hyperinflation — by the time notes of this denomination were being printed for municipalities in mid-to-late 1923, the Reichsmark was losing value faster than regional printers could turn around new stock. Carl Naumann's Druckerei in Frankfurt am Main handled a considerable volume of emergency currency for Hessian towns during this period, often recycling typographic layouts across multiple issuers with only the authorizing city name changed.
Stadt Bad Homburg vor der Höhe — the spa town north of Frankfurt — had genuine civic standing and the tax base to back short-term local scrip, which gave its notgeld slightly more credibility than issues from smaller rural communes.