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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreis-Ausschuß des Landkreises Solingen |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld (emergency money) issued in green and dark brown offset letterpress on plain paper, with an ornate interlaced guilloche border running along all four edges. The denomination "Fünfzig Millionen Mark" is set in large bold typeface at the centre, flanked by vertical side panels bearing the numeral "50 000 000"; the top and bottom borders carry the same numeral in white lettering on a dark ground. Legal-tender and redemption clauses appear in two text columns beneath the denomination, with the place and date of issue "Opladen, den 15. September 1923" and the issuing authority "Der Kreis-Ausschuß des Landkreises Solingen" below, accompanied by three manuscript signatures. A light guilloche underprint covers the entire note field. |
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| Protection type | Embossed seal |
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Landkreis Solingen — the rural district surrounding the city — issued this 50-million Mark note at the absolute peak of the Weimar hyperinflation, when denominations were escalating so fast that Notgeld of this face value had a useful life measured in days before becoming functionally worthless. Walter Schreiber & Fey were a local Solingen printing firm, not a specialist security printer, which was entirely typical of emergency district issues by mid-1923: municipalities took work wherever they could get it quickly.
The embossed seal was the issuer's primary — and in many cases only — anti-counterfeiting measure. Given the pace of monetary collapse at the time, sophisticated forgery of hyperinflation Notgeld was economically pointless.