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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Frankenthal (Palatinate) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided Notgeld printed in violet on plain paper, with the entire design executed in letterpress. The left half is dominated by a large ornamental Gothic initial letter rendered in an elaborate interlaced scrollwork vignette, below which appears the circular official seal of the Stadtgemeinde Frankenthal bearing a rampant lion. To the right, the denomination is stated in large Fraktur script as 'Fünfzig Millionen Mark', with the issuing authority, date of 3 August 1923, and a legal text block below, accompanied by two manuscript signatures on behalf of Der Stadtrat and Die Stadthauptkasse respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Frankenthal. 50 Millionen Mark. Fünfzig Millionen Mark Lit. B zahlt die Stadthauptkasse Frankenthal dem Einlieferer dieses Scheins Frankenthal, den 3. August 1923. Der Stadtrat: i. V. Die Stadthauptkasse: Dieser Schein ist aufgrund Stadtratsbeschlusses vom 3. Aug. 1923 mit Genehmigung des Reichsfinanzministeriums ausgegeben. Das Ende der Umlaufzeit wird in Frankenthal bekanntgemacht. |
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Frankenthal is a small industrial town in the Rhenish Palatinate, and its notgeld issues of 1923 sit squarely within the hyperinflation emergency that forced thousands of German municipalities to print their own emergency currency when Reichsbank notes couldn't keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. By the time 50-million-mark denominations were necessary for everyday transactions, the inflation had already rendered earlier issues functionally worthless within days of printing.
The DeNG catalog suffix ".g" indicates a specific variant within the 1520 series — likely a paper stock, date, or overprint distinction from closely related issues. Worth confirming against the Grabowski-Mehl reference directly before cataloging multiples.