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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtpflege Winnenden (City of Winnenden) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark red on cream paper, the note is laid out in three vertical panels divided by ruled borders. The central panel carries a fine letterpress vignette of a Winnenden street scene with a church tower rising above half-timbered rooftops, signed by the artist J. Dubler, flanked by the title legend in Gothic blackletter script above and the city coat of arms below alongside the issue date. The left panel bears the denomination numeral and the words 'Gut-Stadt' with the Stadtschultheiß signature and series designation 'Reihe DW', while the right panel displays 'Schein Winnenden' with the Stadtpfleger signature and serial number. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is the mirror image of the obverse design printed in pale red, being the show-through of the front letterpress impression on thin paper. A large circular violet official stamp of the Gemeinderat Winnenden is applied in the centre of the note, serving as the validity mark (Güttigkeitszeichen) referenced on the obverse. |
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Winnenden is a small town in Württemberg, and its appearance in the notgeld record during the hyperinflation peak of 1923 is entirely typical of municipal emergency issues scrambling to fill the void left by worthless Reichsbank currency. By the time fifty-million-mark denominations were being printed at the local level, the Reichsbank itself had lost practical control of the money supply — municipal and commercial issuers were effectively running parallel monetary systems out of necessity.
The Stadtpflege — the city treasury office — served as the issuing authority rather than a bank, which was common in smaller Württemberg municipalities. Authentication relied entirely on an applied official stamp, a low-security solution that was broadly tolerated because forgery of hyperinflationary notgeld was rarely economically rational given how fast denominations were being superseded.