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50 000 000 Mark Ladenburg
| Issuer | Volksbank Ladenburg e.G.m.b.H. |
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| Year | 1921-1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress cheque-format emergency note in brown ink, framed within a decorative guilloche border. The issuer name 'Volksbank Ladenburg e.G.m.b.H.' is set in large blackletter type at centre, above a German-language payment order text, with the denomination 'Fünfzig Millionen Mark' in bold blackletter script at lower centre and the numeral '50,000,000' repeated along the left margin and upper right corner. The date 'Ladenburg, den 21. September 1923' appears at lower left, accompanied by two manuscript signatures and a violet rubber stamp reading 'G. Fetzer G.m.b.H.' |
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| Obverse lettering | G.F. No 000424 * Mr. 50,000,000 Die Volksbank Ladenburg e.G.m.b.H. wolle zahlen gegen diesen Scheck aus unserem Guthaben an ___ oder Ueberbringer Fünfzig Millionen Mark Ladenburg, den 21. September 1923. Schecks, in welchen der Zusatz - oder Ueberbringer - durchstrichen oder eine Zahlungsfrist angegeben ist, werden nicht bezahlt. |
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Volksbank Ladenburg e.G.m.b.H. was a small cooperative savings bank serving a Rhine-Neckar town of a few thousand people — exactly the kind of institution that found itself issuing emergency currency during the hyperinflation spiral of 1922–1923. The 50,000,000 Mark denomination places this firmly in the late-inflation phase, after successive zeroes had made earlier Notgeld issues almost comically inadequate within weeks of printing.
Local printing kept turnaround fast but quality variable. The DeNG reference 7/8#2861a suggests documentation within the broader Baden regional notgeld corpus.