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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Pirmasens |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is laid out on a yellow-ochre guilloche underprint with an interlocking wave pattern across the main field. The issuer's name 'STADTGEMEINDE PIRMASENS' appears in bold letterpress at the top, with the denomination '50 MILLIONEN MARK' printed in large green capitals dominating the centre, flanked by two boxed numeral panels reading '50 000 000'. A circular red official stamp of the Stadtgemeinde Pirmasens is applied at lower centre, with the place and date 'PIRMASENS, 18. Sept. 1923' to the left, and a manuscript signature under the legend 'Bürgermeisteramt:' to the right. A detachable serial number stub at right, printed in gold with red 'REIHE X' overprint, carries the note number. |
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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 |
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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.