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50 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Annweiler (City of Annweiler) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is occupied by a black-and-white photographic vignette of the rocky Palatinate Forest landscape around Annweiler, with the prominent sandstone outcrop of Asselstein in the centre foreground and the ruined hilltop silhouettes of Trifels, Annebos, and Münz castle visible across the wooded ridgeline in the background. A green letterpress overprint of the denomination "50 000 Mk." runs centrally across the photographic image. The whole is framed by the same green scalloped border used on the obverse. |
| Reverse lettering | Trifels Asselstein Annebos Münz 50 000 Mk. |
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Annweiler am Trifels, a small town in the Palatinate, issued this 50,000 Mark note during the peak inflationary spiral of 1923 — the same period when the German central government was printing denominations that would soon reach the billions. Municipal bodies across Germany were legally permitted to issue their own emergency currency, Notgeld, precisely because the Reichsbank could not supply adequate circulating medium fast enough.
Annweiler's issues from this period are relatively scarce simply because the town's population was small and print runs were correspondingly modest. By November 1923 the note's face value was effectively worthless against daily prices.