50 000 000 Mark

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.