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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Bergedorf |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| In circulation to | 1923 |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Bergedorf 50 Millionen Mark Die Einlösung erfolgt durch die Stadtkasse gegen andere Zahlungsmittel. Der Gutschein kann vom Magistrat vom 1. Oktober 1923 ab aufgerufen werden. Bergedorf, den 23. August 1923. Der Magistrat. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting plain cream paper stock on which the letterpress impression of the obverse bleeds through in faint mirror image, with the geometric underprint pattern and Fraktur text visible in ghosted form. |
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Bergedorf, now a district of Hamburg, was an independent town during the hyperinflation crisis and issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — like hundreds of other German municipalities scrambling to fill the void left by the Reichsbank's inability to supply adequate denominations fast enough for daily commerce. By the time fifty-million-mark notes were necessary for ordinary transactions, the printing and distribution cycle had compressed to days.
The "e" suffix in the DeNG reference typically denotes a specific paper or color variant within the series — worth confirming against the Grabowski/Mehl catalog, as Bergedorf issued multiple closely related types across the 315 run.