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50 000 000 Marks
| Issuer | Bezirk Dürkheim (District of Dürkheim, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 50 000 000 Marks (50 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | Der Bezirk Dürkheim zahlt Fünfzig Millionen Mark gegen Vorlage dieses Gutscheines BEZIRKSTAG: BAD DÜRKHEIM, DEN 8. SEPT. 1923 BEZIRKSKASSE: FÜR DIE EINLÖSUNG HAFTET DER BEZIRK DÜRKHEIM. DER GEGENWERT DIESES SCHEINES IST BEI DER STAATSBANK HINTERLEGT. DIE EINLÖSUNG WIRD ÖFFENTLICH BEKANNT GEGEBEN. J. RHEINBERGER, BAD DÜRKHEIM |
| Reverse description | Plain tan-ochre field with a fine wavy-line underprint, enclosed within a dotted-and-rule border matching the obverse. A central vignette in dark blue letterpress renders the ruins of Limburg Abbey (Kloster Limburg) on a hilltop, executed in a fine engraved illustrative style with light hatching; the numeral "50" is set in a large outlined typeface at upper left, and a blind-embossed circular seal appears at upper right. The denomination legend in italic script runs along the lower margin. |
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Bezirk Dürkheim was one of hundreds of German administrative districts forced into emergency currency production during the hyperinflation peak of late 1923, when Reichsbank notes were rendered worthless faster than they could be printed. This note, at fifty million marks, was already a mid-range denomination by the time it circulated — within weeks, billion-mark issues were commonplace. J. Rheinberger was a local Bad Dürkheim printer with no specialist banknote background, which is exactly the point: Notgeld at this scale was not a banking decision but a municipal survival measure.
The Palatinate region had its own particular instability in 1923, with French occupation forces and separatist agitation complicating the already-chaotic monetary situation.