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50 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Kreuznach (City of Kreuznach) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 154 x 94 mm |
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| Protection type | Embossed seal |
| Protection description | Blind embossed municipal seal of the City of Kreuznach applied at lower centre of the note, visible on both sides of the paper. |
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Kreuznach was among the hundreds of German municipal and regional authorities that printed their own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank simply could not produce denominations fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. By mid-1923, a 50,000 Mark note represented a sum that would have seemed astronomically large just eighteen months earlier, and would be essentially worthless within weeks of issue.
The embossed seal was the city's primary authentication device, a practical choice when sophisticated printing security was neither available nor, given the note's likely lifespan, worth the expense.