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50 000 000 Mark Bensberg
| Issuer | Gemeindekasse Bensberg |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 50 000 000 Marks (50 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Teal letterpress note with a dark outer border enclosing ornate guilloche side panels and floral corner ornaments. Central cartouche bears the denomination legend in bold Gothic type, with a circular municipal seal at lower left and a red serial number below. Issuance text dated BENSBERG, den 10. August 1923, with the Bürgermeister's facsimile signature at right. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely teal letterpress back with a multi-rule outer frame and vertical ornamental side columns of stacked rosettes. The central vignette, set within a scrollwork cartouche, presents a pastoral townscape of Bensberg with a Romanesque church tower rising above surrounding trees and village buildings. No inscriptions appear on the reverse. |
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Bensberg's municipal treasury issued this note during the hyperinflation of autumn 1923, when German local authorities — Gemeindekassen, savings banks, commercial firms — flooded the country with emergency currency simply to meet payroll. The Reichsbank could not print fast enough. By the time a fifty-million-mark note was designed, typeset, and delivered from Heiss & Co. in Köln-Lindenthal, the denomination was frequently obsolete before the ink dried.
Bensberg itself was a small administrative town east of Cologne, absorbed into Bergisch Gladbach in 1975. Its notgeld output was modest, which limits surviving quantities today.