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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Haan (City of Haan) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 50 000 000 Marks (50 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Violet-grey letterpress note with an interlaced Celtic-knot border framing the entire face. Large Fraktur blackletter inscription 'Fünfzig Millionen Mark' occupies the centre, with the denomination numeral '50 000 000' in a top panel. Series letter and serial number appear at left and right; the issuing authority 'Stadt Haan' is set in a bold sans-serif band at the foot, above the printer's imprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 000 000 Fünfzig Millionen Mark zahlt die Gartenstadt Haan gegen diesen Schein dem Einlieferer. Dieser Gutschein wird von allen Kassen der Stadtgemeinde Haan eingelöst, er verliert seine Gültigkeit nach Aufkündigung in den Haaner Zeitungen. Haan, den 1. September 1923. Der Bürgermeister : (Translation: 50,000,000 Fifty million marks The Garden City of Haan pays the depositor against this note. This voucher is redeemed by all cash offices of the city community of Haan; it loses its validity after announcement in the Haan newspapers. Haan, September 1, 1923. The Mayor:) |
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Haan is a small Bergisches Land town wedged between Solingen and Mettmann — hardly a major economic center, yet like hundreds of German municipalities in the autumn of 1923, it was forced into the notgeld business by simple necessity. The Reichsbank could not print fast enough to keep wages payable, and local governments filled the gap with their own emergency issues, each denomination racing to keep pace with a collapse that made the previous week's figures absurd.
Schreiber & Fey, operating out of neighboring Solingen, printed for several municipal clients in the region during this period. The fifty-million-mark denomination places this note squarely in the mid-October 1923 window, just before the stabilization measures that rendered the entire series worthless within weeks.