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50 000 Mark
| Issuer | Städtische Kämmereikasse Stettin (City Treasury of Stettin) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed Ersatz-Wertzeichen on plain paper, with a decorative dot-pattern border framing the entire face. The arms of Stettin — a crowned griffin — appear in a woodcut-style vignette at upper centre, flanked by the serial number box at right. The denomination Fünfzigtausend Mark is set in bold blackletter type, with issuer text and date 11. August 1923 below, above two manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted, showing plain cream-coloured paper with fold marks and age toning consistent with circulation wear. No typeset text, vignette, or decorative element is present. |
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Stettin's municipal treasury issued this note at the height of the Weimar hyperinflation, when the Reichsbank's inability to print fast enough forced hundreds of German cities and towns to issue their own emergency currency — Notgeld — to keep commerce moving. By mid-1923, 50,000 Mark was barely enough for daily transactions; within weeks of notes like this entering circulation, the denomination was already obsolete.
M. Bauchwitz was a Stettin-based printer, not a specialist security printer, which is exactly the point — municipal authorities were contracting whoever was local and available. Stettin itself would become Szczecin, Poland, in 1945.