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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Tübingen (Universitätsstadt Tübingen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld printed in dark blue-green on pale buff paper, enclosed within a decorative foliate border. The issuing authority "Universitätsstadt Tübingen" is set at the top centre in Gothic letterpress, with the denomination "50,000,000 M." repeated in the upper corners and the large-format value text "Fünfzig Millionen Mark" in bold blackletter across the centre. A large circular rose-coloured underprint overprinted across the face provides a rudimentary anti-counterfeiting element, and an oval "Stadtgemeinde Tübingen" municipal seal is applied in the lower centre, flanked by two manuscript signatures above the titles Oberbürgermeister and Stadtpfleger. |
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| Obverse lettering | Universitätsstadt Tübingen 50,000,000 M. Stadtkassenschein 50,000,000 M. Fünfzig Millionen Mark zahlt die Stadtpflege Tübingen dem Einlieferer dieses Kassenscheins Tübingen, den 24. September 1923 Oberbürgermeister: Stadtpfleger: Aufruf zur Rückzahlung ist vorbehalten Nachahmung oder Fälschung strafbar |
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Tübingen's municipal administration — like hundreds of German towns — was forced into emergency currency issuance during the hyperinflation of 1923, as the Reichsbank simply could not print and distribute legal tender fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. The fifty-million mark denomination tells you exactly where this note sits in that timeline: by late summer 1923, denominations that would have seemed fictional twelve months earlier were routine wage packets.
The embossed seal is the authenticating device here, applied locally to deter the widespread forgery that plagued Notgeld at higher denominations. Overprinting existing stock was the faster solution — new stones or plates took time nobody had.