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50 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Solingen (City of Solingen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper, the obverse is framed by an ornate guilloche border with rosette corner ornaments and a fine hatched inner band. A ghosted vignette of a standing civic statue occupies the centre background, overlaid by the denomination in large blackletter script. The upper legend, date line, and a three-line redemption clause appear in roman type, accompanied by the circular embossed seal of the Stadt Solingen at centre and a manuscript signature of the Oberbürgermeister at lower right. The alphanumeric serial number and series letter are printed vertically along the left margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Stadt Solingen 50 000 Mark Nachahmung strafbar |
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Solingen's municipal emergency currency sits in the deep inflationary spiral of 1923 — the period when German city and district administrations were legally permitted to issue their own Notgeld to plug the gap between wages and the Reichsbank's inability to supply physical currency fast enough. A 50,000 Mark denomination sounds extraordinary; by mid-1923 it was grocery money, and within months even this figure would be rendered irrelevant by denominations running into the billions.
Solingen, long known as the centre of Germany's blade and cutlery industry, printed this locally — a common but logistically fraught arrangement that produced wide variation in paper quality and print registration across surviving examples of municipal issues from this region.