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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Dorsten (City of Dorsten) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| In circulation to | 30 November 1923 |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue on a cream paper ground with a dense guilloche underprint incorporating a faint vignette of a church or town skyline at centre. A scalloped decorative border frames the note, with the issuer's title in Gothic script at top. The denomination appears twice in large numerals across the upper field, with the value spelled out in full in bold block lettering at centre. Below, a text block states the redemption conditions and the issue date of 18 September 1923, followed by the designation 'Der Magistrat' and two manuscript signatures. A serial number is printed vertically along the left margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 MILLIONEN DORSTEN |
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Dorsten's 50-million Mark note dates from the late summer of 1923, when German municipal authorities were routinely empowered — or simply forced by necessity — to print their own emergency currency as Reichsbank supply collapsed under hyperinflation. By August of that year, the Reichsbank's own presses could not keep pace with denominations that were doubling weekly, and hundreds of German cities issued Notgeld at values that would have been unimaginable twelve months earlier.
Local printing on locally sourced paper stock is the norm for issues like this, and Dorsten's example is no exception — expect inconsistencies in ink density and registration across surviving specimens.