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50 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Kitzingen (City of Kitzingen, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 50 000 Marks (50 000) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown on cream paper stock, the obverse is framed by an intricate guilloche scroll border enclosing a central blue-grey vignette of the Kitzingen townscape with church spires and rooftops. The denomination "Fünfzigtausend Mark" is set in large blackletter type across the centre, with the date "Kitzingen, den 9. August 1923" and the issuing authority "Stadtgemeinde Kitzingen" immediately below; the numeral "50000 Mark" runs vertically in blackletter along the right margin. A red circular municipal seal (Stadtratssiegel Kitzingen) and an autograph signature of the acting Bürgermeister appear at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadtgemeinde Kitzingen Fünfzigtausend Mark Kitzingen, den 9. August 1923. Stadtgemeinde Kitzingen: l. rechtsf. Bürgermeister. Einlösbar spätestens 4 Wochen nach Aufruf. 50000 Mark Buchdruckerei · Kunstanstalt Konrad Triltsch, Würzburg-Aumühle. |
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Kitzingen's 50,000 Mark note belongs to the German hyperinflation emergency issues of 1923, when municipal and regional authorities across the Reich were authorized to print their own notgeld simply to keep commerce moving as the Reichsmark collapsed faster than the Reichsdruckerei could respond. Konrad Triltsch in Würzburg-Aumühle was a reputable regional printer with genuine lithographic capability, which puts this issue a step above the crudest municipal efforts of the period.
By the time denominations like this were circulating, 50,000 Mark bought roughly what a few pfennig had purchased two years earlier.