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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kirchzell (Market Town of Kirchzell) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 50 000 000 Mark (50 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issued on purple-tinted paper with an all-over geometric guilloche underprint forming the background across the entire face. The denomination '50 MILLIONEN' is set in large numerals at the upper corners and in a central panel at top, with the words 'Fünfzig Millionen Mark' in bold Gothic blackletter script at centre. A Gut-Schein (voucher) legend appears above the central denomination, flanked by decorative scroll ornaments, while a small female head vignette occupies the lower-left corner cartouche. The issuing authority 'GEMEINDE KIRCHZELL' is printed in capital letters at the foot, accompanied by a circular blue official stamp, the date '22. August 1923', and two manuscript signatures; vertical text runs along both lateral margins. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on plain cream paper in black ink and displays a restrained, typographic layout. Two mirrored Art Nouveau-style ornamental vignettes — each composed of scrolling foliate wings flanking a geometric rectangular panel — are placed at the upper and lower centre, framing the denomination. The words 'Fünfzig Millionen Mark' are rendered in large, elegant Gothic blackletter script between the two ornaments, with a faint guilloche watermark pattern visible in the paper ground. |
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Kirchzell is a small market town in the Odenwald region of Bavaria — by any measure, an unlikely issuer of emergency currency denominated in eight figures. This note was produced during the hyperinflationary peak of 1923, when municipal and commercial bodies across Germany were legally permitted to issue Notgeld to fill the vacuum left by the Reichsbank's inability to print fast enough. A face value of 50 million Mark sounds extraordinary; by late 1923 it was bus fare.
Gottlob Volkhardt'sche Druckerei was a regional press in Wertheim am Main, used by several smaller Baden and Bavarian communities for their emergency issues.