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50 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Solingen (City of Solingen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Solingen über Fünfzigtausend Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von allen Kassen der Stadtgemeinde Solingen eingelöst. - Der Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit nach Aufkündigung in den Solinger Zeitungen. Solingen, 10. Juli 1923. Der Oberbürgermeister: |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on plain cream paper with a simple typographic layout. A double-ruled rectangular border frames the entire field, with fine guilloche line work forming the inner frame. The issuer name and denomination are set in large sans-serif type at centre, with a forgery-warning legend in smaller type below. |
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| Comments |
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.