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50 000 000 Mark Bochumer Verein für Bergbau und Gußstahlfabrikation
| Issuer | Bochumer Verein für Bergbau und Gußstahlfabrikation |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-red and dark blue bicolour Notgeld voucher with a salmon-red outer border framing the entire design. The left third carries the denomination '50 Millionen' printed vertically in large dark blue letters. A vignette at centre-left portrays a standing miner in work attire holding a lamp, rendered in fine letterpress against a hatched salmon underprint. The right panel carries the denomination numerals and text in bold dark blue typography, the issuer name, the date 'Bochum, den 1. September 1923', a serial number, two manuscript signatures, and a redemption clause in a lower text band. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in salmon-red and dark blue on an unprinted white ground. A central cartouche with ornate scalloped edges encloses a fine guilloche rosette underprint in salmon, over which the large stylised monogram 'BV' is printed in teal-green, surmounted by the bold dark blue denomination '50 Millionen Mark'. The surrounding field is filled with a geometric salmon-red lattice pattern, and a vertical column of Gothic-script redemption text runs along the right margin. |
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Bochumer Verein für Bergbau und Gußstahlfabrikation was one of the Ruhr's industrial giants — a vertically integrated mining and cast-steel operation that, by 1923, found itself printing emergency money simply to meet its own payroll. This was Notgeld at its most functional: a major private employer issuing scrip not for collectors but because the Reichsbank could not supply denominations fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation.
The 50-million Mark figure, now almost comic, was already insufficient within days of printing. Ruhr industrial Notgeld from this period was often redeemed almost immediately and destroyed, making survivors genuinely uncommon despite the enormous quantities originally run.