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50 000 000 Mark Bensberg
| Issuer | Gemeindekasse Bensberg |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 140 x 90 mm |
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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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| Obverse lettering | MARK ~ 50 000 000 ~ MARK GUTSCHEIN ÜBER FÜNFZIG MILLIONEN MARK Dieser Gutschein wird von der Gemeindekasse Bensberg und von allen anderen öffentlichen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung, die in der Bensberger Volkszeitung und in wenigstens zwei Kölner Zeitungen erfolgen muß. Die Gemeinde Bensberg haftet für die Einlösung. BENSBERG, den 10. August 1923. Der Bürgermeister: GEMEINDE * BENSBERG HEISS & Co KÖLN-LINDENTHAL |
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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.