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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Düren (City of Düren) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| In circulation to | 1 April 1924 |
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| Obverse lettering | DIESER GUTSCHEIN ÜBER FÜNFZIG MILLIONEN MARK Die Stadtgemeinde Düren haftet für die Einlösung. Düren den 4. September 1923 Der Oberbürgermeister Umlauffähig in den Regierungsbezirken AACHEN und KÖLN Gültig bis zum 1. April 1924 Stadt Düren |
| Reverse description | Green guilloche underprint covers the entire field, with a faint circular vignette of the Düren city arms at centre. The bold numeral legend "50 MILLIONEN" is printed in large dark letterpress across the middle on a pale horizontal band, while oval cartouches at each corner carry the inscription "STADT DÜREN" at upper left and right and the numeral "50 000 000" at lower left and right, all set within fine engine-turned borders. |
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Düren's fifty-million mark note dates to the autumn of 1923, when German municipal authorities were legally empowered — and practically forced — to issue their own emergency currency as the Reichsbank's printing capacity could no longer keep pace with hyperinflation. By October 1923, fifty million marks was approaching the lower threshold of practical daily use; notes of this denomination were already becoming inadequate within days of issue.
Overhus signed as Oberbürgermeister, making the city itself the guarantor — a civic liability that dissolved entirely when the Rentenmark stabilization ended the notgeld period in late November 1923.