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50 000 Mark Süchteln
| Issuer | Stadt Süchteln (City of Süchteln) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 50 000 Marks (50 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | A. No. 1970* M 50000 Die Städt. Sparkasse zu Süchteln wolle zahlen gegen diesen Scheck aus unserem Guthaben an den Ueberbringer Mark fünfzigtausend STADT SÜCHTELN Süchteln, den 18. Juli 1923 DER BÜRGERMEISTER Stamp "Bürgermeister Amt Süchteln" and signature (Translation: The City Savings Bank of Süchteln will pay out of our reserves to the bearer of this cheque Mark fifty thousand CITY OF SÜCHTELN Süchteln, July 18th, 1923 THE MAYOR) |
| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse, showing bleed-through impressions of the obverse letterpress text and the circular official stamp visible in mirror image at centre. |
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Süchteln was a small textile-manufacturing town in the Rhineland, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1923, it found itself printing emergency currency not out of institutional ambition but sheer necessity — the Reichsbank simply could not supply physical notes fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation. At 50,000 Mark, this denomination would have felt significant in early 1923 and laughably inadequate within weeks.
Municipal Notgeld of this period was typically printed locally under rushed contracts, which accounts for the variable paper quality and registration inconsistencies that plague the series.