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50 000 000 Mark Kreis Alzey
| Issuer | Hessisches Kreisamt Alzey (Hessian District Office Alzey) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Teal and grey letterpress Notgeld on a fine guilloche underprint. The denomination 'Fünfzig Millionen Mark' is set in large Fraktur blackletter at centre, with 'Kreis Alzey' as the issuer header. A circular red official seal is applied at centre, and a handwritten signature appears at the lower margin. Denomination numerals '50' appear in all four corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Kreis Alzey Fünfzig Millionen Mark zahlt die Kreissparkasse Alzey gegen Vorzeigung dieses Gutscheins nach Aufruf durch die unterzeichnete Behörde. Alzey, den 27. August 1923 Hessisches Kreisamt Alzey (Translation: 50 District of Alzey Fifty million marks will be paid by the Alzey District Savings Bank upon presentation of this voucher after announcement by the undersigned authority. Alzey, August 27, 1923 Hessian District Office Alzey) |
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Kreis Alzey was one of hundreds of German district administrations forced to print emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough physical notes to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. By the time denominations reached fifty million Mark, the figure had become almost meaningless — the Reichsmark reform arrived in November 1923, and most of this Notgeld was redeemed almost immediately or simply discarded.
District-issued notes from the Rheinhessen region at this scale are common in bulk lots but rarely found individually catalogued with clean provenance.