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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreis-Ausschuß des Landkreises Solingen |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Protection type | Embossed seal |
| Protection description | Blind embossed circular official seal of the Kreis-Ausschuß Opladen applied to the reverse, lower right |
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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.