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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Schweinfurt (City of Schweinfurt) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown on cream paper, enclosed within an ornate letterpress border composed of repeated floral and guilloche rosette motifs at the corners and along all four edges. The large denomination numeral '50' appears at the top centre in bold engraved style, flanked by the series designation and serial number printed in red at upper left and upper right respectively. The denomination text 'Fünfzig Millionen Mark' is set in heavy Gothic blackletter script dominating the centre of the note, above a light guilloche underprint incorporating the Schweinfurt civic eagle watermark vignette. The lower portion carries the place and date of issue at left, the redemption clause in German script at centre, and at lower right the Schweinfurt municipal arms accompanied by the manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister above the legend 'Der Stadtrat:' and '1. Bürgermeister'; the printer's imprint 'H. Stürtz A.G. Würzburg' appears at the lower right margin. |
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| Signature(s) | Dr. Wurkle (1. Bürgermeister) |
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Schweinfurt's 50-million-Mark emergency note belongs to the most extreme phase of Weimar hyperinflation — by late 1923, municipal and commercial entities across Germany were printing their own Notgeld simply because the Reichsbank could not supply currency fast enough to keep pace with daily price collapses. H. Stürtz in Würzburg was a logical choice for a Bavarian city of Schweinfurt's size: a capable academic press able to turn around large denominations on short notice.
The signature of Dr. Wurkle as Erster Bürgermeister gives the note its legal authorization under emergency municipal powers invoked that year. Within weeks of issue, the denomination itself was obsolete — the Rentenmark reform of November 1923 rendered all Mark-denominated Notgeld worthless overnight.