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50 000 Mark
| Issuer | Danzig, City of |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 50 000 Marks (50 000) |
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| Obverse description | Light green on pale yellow underprint, with intricate guilloche patterning throughout. A vignette of St. Mary's Church (Marienkirche) is positioned at left, rendered in the engraved style typical of early Weimar-era municipal issues. |
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| Reverse description | The municipal arms of Danzig are positioned at left, accompanied by a central vignette of Danzig city buildings rendered in a style consistent with early 1920s German-area municipal note design. |
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Danzig's municipal authority issued this 50,000 Mark note in 1923 during the hyperinflationary collapse that consumed the German reichsmark — but Danzig, as a Free City under League of Nations protection since 1920, ran its own currency track. The city introduced the Danzig Mark independently, though it suffered the same inflationary spiral as the broader German monetary zone it remained commercially entangled with.
Pick 19 belongs to the emergency high-denomination phase before Danzig switched to the Danzig Gulden in October 1923, severing the peg entirely.