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50 000 000 Mark Handelskammer
| Issuer | Handelskammer für die Provinz Birkenfeld |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | SERIE A Handelskammer für die Provinz Birkenfeld Gutschein über 50 Millionen Mark Dieser Notgeldschein gilt als gesetzliches Zahlungsmittel. Der Gegenwert ist bei der Reichsbank als Garantie hinterlegt. Der Zeitpunkt, mit dem der Schein seine Gültigkeit verliert, wird öffentlich bekannt gemacht werden. Idar, den 15. August 1923. Die Handelskammer: Der Vorsitzender: Der Syndikus: |
| Reverse description | Uniform grey-blue guilloche underprint enclosed within a red dotted rectangular border. A large central white circle carries the red letterpress inscription of the issuing authority in three lines. Denomination numerals "50 Millionen" are printed diagonally in red at each of the four corners, alternating in orientation. |
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The Handelskammer für die Provinz Birkenfeld was an unusually small issuing body for a note of this denomination — a chamber of commerce serving a detached Prussian enclave surrounded on all sides by the Rhineland and Oldenburg. By August 1923, when notes of this magnitude were entering circulation, the Reichsbank had effectively ceded emergency currency issuance to hundreds of local authorities, and a provincial chamber of commerce qualified as readily as any municipality.
Birkenfeld's geographic isolation as a Prussian exclave gave its local institutions a degree of administrative independence that made this kind of issuance practically straightforward, even at fifty million marks.