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50 000 000 Mark Hennef
| Issuer | Bürgermeisterei Hennef |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | SERIE A Bürgermeisterei Hennef Gutschein über Fünfzig Millionen Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von der Sparkasse der Bürgermeisterei Hennef und der Gemeindekasse in Hennef in Zahlung genommen. Er behält seine Gültigkeit bis zur Aufkündigung in den für die Veröffentlichung der amtlichen Bekanntmachungen der Bürgermeisterei Hennef bestimmten Zeitungen Hennef (Sieg), 24. August 1923 Der Bürgermeister i. G. Beigeordneter |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents the obverse design in mirror image as a show-through impression on the plain pale green guilloche-patterned paper, with no independent printed design elements; the background consists entirely of the uniform fine guilloche underprint visible through the thin paper stock. |
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Hennef is a small town on the Sieg river east of Bonn, and like hundreds of German municipalities in the autumn of 1923, its Bürgermeisterei was forced into the notgeld business not by choice but by the collapse of Reichsbank supply. By the time denominations reached eight figures, the notes were being printed and spent within days — sometimes hours — of issue, the ink barely dry before the face value was already insufficient.
Rhenania-Druckerei in Bonn handled output for numerous Rhineland municipalities during this period, which kept turnaround fast but quality unremarkable.