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50 000 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinderat Bad Wörishofen (Municipality of Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN UBER FÜNFZIGTAUSEND MARK die Gemeinde Bad Wörishofen loft diesen Schein jederzeif späfeltens am 31. März 1924 ein * Vier Wochen nach Autruf erlifchf die Gilfigkeif BAD WORISHOFEN.15.AUG.1923 Gemeinderat Bad Worishofen: Gemeindekasse Bad Worishofen: Gemeinderat BAD WORISHOFEN (Translation: VOUCHER FOR FIFTY THOUSAND MARKS The municipality of Bad Wörishofen received this voucher no later than March 31, 1924. * The validity period expires four weeks after the announcement. Bad WORISHOFEN, AUGUST 15, 1923 Bad Worishofen Municipal Council: Bad Worishofen Municipal Treasury:) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in blue and displays a tiled geometric underprint of repeating quatrefoil motifs across the whole field, enclosed within a multi-rule rectangular border. At centre, the numeral denomination is set in bold Gothic-style figures within an elaborate pointed-oval guilloche cartouche surrounded by a radiating starburst of jagged foliate elements. No additional text appears on this face. |
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Bad Wörishofen is better known as the town where Sebastian Kneipp developed his water-cure therapy in the nineteenth century than as a monetary authority, yet like hundreds of German municipalities in 1923, its council was forced into issuing emergency currency — Notgeld — as hyperinflation rendered Reichsbank notes functionally obsolete faster than they could be printed and distributed. The 50,000 Mark denomination places this firmly in the mid-phase of the crisis, before the truly astronomical figures of late 1923 pushed German municipal issues into the billions and trillions.
Bavarian municipal Notgeld of this period was typically printed locally on short notice, often by regional commercial printers with no specialized security printing experience.