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50 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Zirndorf (City of Zirndorf, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 50 000 Marks (50 000) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld note printed in dark red on a yellow underprint consisting of repeated numerals '50000' arranged in a dense all-over pattern within a ruled border. The denomination 'Mr. 50 000' appears in the upper left, with the large Fraktur heading 'Notgeld der Stadt Zirndorf' across the upper centre, flanked by a serial number at right. A lightly printed municipal coat of arms vignette is centred in the middle field, above the large denomination legend 'Fünfzigtausend Mark' in bold Fraktur script. The issue date 'Zirndorf, 15. August 1923.' is printed centrally in the lower portion, below which three manuscript signatures appear, with the printer's imprint 'Buchdruckerei J. Vollmann Zirndorf' at the lower left. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted plain paper, showing only a faint offset impression (set-off) of the obverse text and underprint visible through the thin stock, with no intentional design elements. |
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Zirndorf is a small town west of Nuremberg, best known — then as now — for its toy industry. This 50,000 Mark note is Notgeld, emergency currency issued by the municipality during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsmark was collapsing fast enough that local authorities had to print their own denominations just to keep commerce moving. By the time notes like this entered circulation, the face value was already losing purchasing power within days of issue.
J. Vollmann was a local print shop, not a specialist security printer. The absence of sophisticated anti-counterfeiting measures was essentially irrelevant — inflation made forgery pointless.