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50 000 000 Mark Bezirk Sonthofen-Immenstadt
| Issuer | Bezirk Sonthofen-Immenstadt |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 50 000 000 Marks (50 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Pink and cream Notgeld issued on plain paper within a fine guilloche-patterned border with dashed marginal rules at left and right. The denomination 'Fünfzig Millionen Mark' is rendered in large, ornate blackletter script across the centre of the note, with a faint architectural vignette forming the underprint behind the text. Below, a multi-line legal text in Fraktur script details the note's validity within the communes of Bezirk Sonthofen-Immenstadt and its redemption terms by the Bezirkskasse Sonthofen, dated 15. Sept. 1923, followed by the 'Bezirks-Ausschuß' designation and a manuscript signature with the title 'Vorsitzender'. |
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| Reverse lettering | K BEZIRK SONTHOFEN IMMENSTADT 50 Nachahmungen werden gerichtlich bestraft. 50 Millionen 50 |
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Bezirk Sonthofen-Immenstadt was one of hundreds of German regional authorities that printed their own emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank could not supply denominations fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. By the time 50-million-mark notes were necessary, a loaf of bread in provincial Bavaria could cost more than the entire pre-war German national debt in nominal terms. Local printers like Waltenberger in Sonthofen found themselves producing what amounted to fiscal kindling — currency with a useful life measured in days before a new, larger denomination was required.