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50 000 000 Mark Beuchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Beuchen |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed Gutschein (emergency money voucher) on pale lilac guilloche underprint with an ornamental border. The denomination '50 MILLIONEN' is set in large blackletter type at centre, flanked by the numeral '50' in each upper corner, with a red serial number below the heading '50.000.000' at top. A small face vignette appears in each lower corner, and vertical legal text runs along both side margins. The issuing authority 'GEMEINDE BEUCHEN' is printed in capitals along the lower panel, with the date 'Beuchen, 17. August 1923' and two manuscript signatures above a violet official stamp. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with a central rectangular decorative border formed by a repeating ornamental chain motif. Within the border, the denomination is stated in two lines of blackletter script. The obverse design shows through as a light impression, giving the reverse a sparse, utilitarian appearance typical of wartime German Notgeld issues. |
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German municipal notgeld at the 50-million-mark level belongs squarely to the hyperinflation peak of late 1923, when local authorities — lacking any practical alternative — printed emergency denominations that would have seemed hallucinatory just months earlier. Beuchen's Gemeinde issued this note as purchasing power collapsed so rapidly that a note printed on Monday could be functionally worthless by Friday.
Gottlob Volkhardt'sche Druckerei was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist banknote firm, which is exactly what you'd expect at this level of municipal issue — professional engravers and security printing were luxuries no small Gemeinde could afford or wait for in August and September 1923.