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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Neuss (City of Neuss) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT Fünfzig Millionen Mark 50 Millionen Fünfzig Millionen Mark zahlt die Stadt Neuß bei ihren sämtlichen Kassen an den Vorzeiger Neuß, 15. September 1923 Der Zeitpunkt der Einlösung wird in den Tageszeitungen amtl. bekannt gemacht. Der Oberbürgermeister: NEUSS 50,000,000 Mark |
| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on pale grey-green paper in the same bold Gothic style as the obverse. Large individually framed circular digit vignettes with horizontal-line fill arrange the denomination '50,000,000' across the top and bottom margins, flanked by 'M·A·R·K' on plain ribbon banners at both top and bottom centre. The words 'fünfzig Millionen' are set in large blackletter script across the centre of the note, with 'Stadt Neuß' repeated in Gothic lettering to either side, and the printer's imprint 'L. Schwann-Düsseldorf' at the lower right. |
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Stadt Neuss issued this 50-million Mark note in the summer or autumn of 1923, when German municipal and commercial authorities were routinely stepping in to plug currency shortages left by a Reichsbank that could not print fast enough. Notgeld at this denomination was not emergency money in any meaningful psychological sense anymore — by mid-1923 the public had largely lost the ability to register the absurdity of the figures.
L. Schwann in Düsseldorf was a commercial printing house, not a specialist banknote printer, which is entirely typical for Rhineland municipal issues of this period — the quality reflects it.