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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bad Godesberg (Municipality of Bad Godesberg) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 50 000 000 Marks (50 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld voucher printed in black on cream paper. The left portion carries the issuing town name, denomination in figures and words, legal tender text, and date, with a central vignette of the Godesberg castle tower flanked by the Bürgermeister signature stamp and municipal eagle seal. The right panel is printed in violet with a large bold numeral '50' as a denominational underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | Bad Godesberg am Rhein 50 000 000 Gutschein 50 000 000 über Fünfzig Millionen Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von den Kassen der Gemeinde in Zahlung genommen.- Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in den Godesberger Zeitungen.- Die Gemeinde haftet für die Einlösung. Godesberg, 13. September 1923. DER BÜRGERMEISTER Godesberger Volkszeitung, Godesberg. (Translation: Bad Godesberg on the Rhine 50,000,000 Voucher 50,000,000 over Fifty Million Mark This voucher will be accepted for payment by the municipal cash offices.- It loses its validity one month after announcement in the Godesberg newspapers.- The municipality is liable for the redemption. Godesberg, 13 September 1923. THE MAYOR Godesberger Volkszeitung, Godesberg.) |
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Bad Godesberg's 50-million Mark note dates from the most acute phase of the Weimar hyperinflation — by late 1923, the Reichsbank simply could not print fast enough, and thousands of municipalities, companies, and private entities began issuing their own emergency currency under the broad category of Notgeld. This particular piece was printed by the local newspaper press, the Godesberger Volkszeitung, a thoroughly mundane solution to a catastrophic problem.
The face value, astronomical by any peacetime measure, was already losing purchasing power within days of printing. By November 1923, when the Rentenmark stabilization took effect, notes like this became worthless almost overnight.