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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Bad Wildungen (Ederkreisbank A.-G. zu Bad Wildungen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 142 × 98 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | No 1385 Mr. 50.000.000.— Die Ederkreisbank A.-G. zu Bad Wildungen zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus dem Guthaben der Stadt Bad Wildungen an Ueberbringer Fünfzig Millionen Mark. Bad Wildungen, den 20. September 1923. DER GEMEINDEVORSTAND. Paul Pitsch, Bad Wildungen |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain cream paper surface; faint mirror-image show-through of the obverse letterpress text is visible due to the relatively thin paper stock, but no design, text, or ornamental elements were applied to this side. |
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Bad Wildungen was a spa town, not an industrial center, and its local notgeld operation reflects the improvised character of Germany's hyperinflation peak. By the time denominations reached eight figures in autumn 1923, municipal and district-level issuers across Germany were printing emergency money faster than the Reichsbank could supply it — Paul Pitsch was a local printer pressed into monetary service, not a security printing house.
The Ederkreisbank acted as the issuing mechanism behind the municipal name, a common arrangement that gave the notes a thin veneer of banking authority while keeping issuance under local control.