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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Pirmasens |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 50 000 000 Mark (50 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | STADTGEMEINDE PIRMASENS 50 000 000 GUTSCHEIN 50 MILLIONEN MARK PIRMASENS, 18. Sept. 1923. Bürgermeisteramt: REIHE X DER ZEITPUNKT DER EINLÖSUNG WIRD ÖFFENTLICH BEKANNTGEGEBEN |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries the same yellow-ochre guilloche underprint of interlocking wave motifs within a black rectangular border surmounted by a decorative crown-tooth frieze. The large green denomination '50 MILLIONEN MARK' is printed in the centre, overlaid by a red printed coat of arms of Pirmasens showing a tower with a rampant lion above. A detachable stub at left repeats the value '50.000.000' in gold print. A two-line anti-counterfeiting warning in German letterpress appears at the foot of the note. |
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Pirmasens was a shoe-manufacturing town in the Palatinate, and its municipal emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923 reflects exactly that provincial character — locally printed, locally circulated, and issued with the desperate velocity that August and September of that year demanded. At the peak of the crisis, denominations were climbing by orders of magnitude week by week, making a 50-million Mark note not extraordinary but merely functional, already obsolete within days of issue.
Municipal notgeld of this period was frequently printed on whatever stock was available, and Pirmasens issues are no exception — paper quality varies considerably across the series.