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50 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt- und Landkreis Aachen |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in blue and black on plain paper, enclosed within a multi-rule blue guilloche border of interlocking geometric patterns. The denomination 'Fünfzigtausend Mark' is set in large Gothic blackletter script at centre, with a pale oval underprint numeral '50000' behind it. Two circular official seals bearing the Prussian eagle flank the lower text block, above which appear two manuscript facsimile signatures with the titles 'Der Oberbürgermeister' and 'Der Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses'. The serial number appears at upper left, and the place and date 'Aachen, den 1. Juli 1923' are printed centrally above the signature line. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt- und Landkreis Aachen Gutschein über Fünfzigtausend Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von allen öffentlichen Kassen des Stadt- und Landkreises Aachen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit vier Wochen nach Aufruf durch die öffentlichen Blätter des Stadt- und Landkreises Aachen. Aachen, den 1. Juli 1923 Der Oberbürgermeister Der Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses Nr. |
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Aachen's municipal and district authority issued this 50,000 Mark note during the summer of 1923, when Reichsbank currency was losing purchasing power faster than it could be printed. Local governments across Germany were legally permitted to issue Notgeld to keep commerce moving — Aachen's situation was complicated further by its position in the occupied Rhineland, where French and Belgian troops had been stationed since 1919 under the terms of Versailles.
The Aachener Verlags- und Druckerei G.m.b.H. was a local press, not a specialist security printer, which shows in the relatively modest production values typical of municipal emergency issues from this period.