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50 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreis Geldern (District of Geldern, Prussian Rhine Province) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in dark brown and rust-red on an unbleached paper ground, with the entire field covered by an intricate floral and geometric guilloche underprint. A bold ornamental border of interlaced foliate motifs frames the design on all four sides. The denomination "Fünfzigtausend Mark" is set in a large Gothic blackletter script across the centre, with the numeral "50000" repeated in the upper left and right corners above the issuer inscription "Kreis Geldern"; below, a multi-line letterpress text states the conditions of acceptance and validity, dated Geldern, 1. August 1923, and countersigned by the Landrat. |
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| Protection description | Chain link pattern watermark visible in the paper |
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Geldern's 50,000 Mark Notgeld arrived in mid-1923 as hyperinflation was accelerating toward its most destructive phase — by the time notes of this denomination felt routine, the Reichsmark itself had weeks left before the November stabilization. District-level authorities across the Rhineland printed their own emergency issues partly because Reichsbank deliveries couldn't keep pace with the collapsing purchasing power, and partly because local printers like L. N. Schaffrath were simply on hand.
The watermarked paper is notable for a Notgeld issue at this level — most Kreis-issued inflationsscheine of comparable denomination dispensed with security features entirely.