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50 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Witten (City of Witten, Prussian province of Westphalia) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is set on a pale yellow guilloche underprint of repeating foliate scroll motifs, enclosed within a double red-ruled border with rosette corner ornaments. The denomination "Fünfzig Millionen Mark" is printed in bold blackletter type at the top, followed by the payment clause in smaller blackletter text, the issue date "Witten, den 10. September 1923", and the issuing authority "Für die Stadtgemeinde Witten: Der Magistrat". Two manuscript signatures of municipal officials appear in the centre, with the serial number printed vertically along the left margin and two small ornamental printer's marks flanking it. |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfzig Millionen Mark zahlt die Stadthauptkasse in Witten dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines. Witten, den 10. September 1923. Für die Stadtgemeinde Witten: Der Magistrat: Der Ablauf der Gültigkeit wird öffentlich bekanntgemacht. |
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Witten's 50-million Mark notgeld was issued at the absolute peak of German hyperinflation — by late 1923, denominations that would have seemed absurd twelve months earlier were routine municipal emergency currency. The Stadtkasse, the city's own treasury office, issued directly rather than routing through a commercial bank, which was common practice for smaller Westphalian industrial towns scrambling to keep wages payable week to week.
Märkische Druckerei, a local press, printed this on very short turnaround. The practical consequence was that design quality was secondary to speed.