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50 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Herne (City of Herne) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfzigtausend Mk zahlen die städtischen Kassen der Stadt Herne den Einlieferer dieses Scheines + Herne, am 25. August 1923. Der Magistrat + Serie F |
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| Reverse lettering | SIEGEL DER STADT HERNE Für die Einlösung dieses Scheines haftet die Stadt Herne mit ihren Gemeinde- u. ihr- Steueraufkommen Dieser Schein verliert einen Monat nach Ausgabe auf bekanntermassen Tagesanleihen die Gültigkeit |
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Herne's 50,000 Mark note is a product of the hyperinflation peak of 1923, when German municipal and regional authorities — Städte, Kreise, Handelskammern — were legally empowered to issue their own emergency currency, Notgeld, to compensate for the Reich's inability to keep denominations in meaningful circulation. By mid-1923, the Reichsbank simply could not print fast enough, and cities like Herne filled the gap with locally authorized paper.
Herne was a coal-mining industrial town in the Ruhr, then under French and Belgian occupation following Germany's default on reparations deliveries — a factor that complicated even routine commerce. The 50,000 Mark denomination, which would have seemed extraordinary months earlier, was already losing purchasing power by the week it was issued.