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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Districts of Bonn-Stadt, Bonn-Land and Siegkreis |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | Rhenania-Druckerei, Bonn, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | REIHE G Gutschein über Fünfzig Millionen Mark 50 000 000 50 000 000 gedeckt durch Hinterlegung von Reichsschatzanweisungen. Er wird von den kommunalen Kassen und Sparkassen sowie den Banken der Kreise Bonn-Stadt, Bonn-Land und des Siegkreises in Zahlung genommen. Der Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit mit Ablauf von 2 Wochen nach Aufruf in den Tageszeitungen der genannten Bezirke. Bonn, den 13. September 1923. Der Oberbürgermeister J. D. Die Handelskammer Bonn |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The three administrative districts of Bonn-Stadt, Bonn-Land, and Siegkreis issued this note jointly during the acute phase of the 1923 hyperinflation, when the Reichsbank's supply of emergency currency could not keep pace with the velocity of price increases. Regional and municipal authorities across Germany were legally permitted — and effectively compelled — to issue their own notgeld to keep local commerce functioning. By the time denominations reached the fifty-million mark range, the notes were often obsolete within days of printing.
Rhenania-Druckerei, a Bonn commercial printer, handled production. The watermarked paper was a relatively conscientious security measure for what was, by mid-1923, essentially disposable currency.