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50 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Dresden (City of Dresden) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in olive-brown and gold tones on cream paper, the obverse is dominated by a large ornate Fraktur script legend reading "Fünfzig Mark" across the centre, with a bold underprint numeral "50" in pale gold beneath it. Elaborate foliate scrollwork vignettes occupy each corner, flanking a central cartouche that contains the issuing authority text and date; small circular medallions in the lower corners bear the city arms of Dresden at left and an official seal at right. Two manuscript signatures appear at the foot, attributed respectively to "Der Rat zu Dresden" and "Die Stadthauptkasse". |
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| Reverse lettering | Fünfzig Mark 50 50 Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nachdem im amtlichen Teile der Sächsischen Staatszeitung und der Leipziger Zeitung die Ausserverkehrsetzung der von den sächsischen Stadtgemeinden und Bezirksverbänden ausgegebenen Gutscheine dieser Art vom Ministerium des Innern verfügt worden ist. Wer Gutscheine nachmacht oder verfälscht oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter zwei Jahren bestraft. Reihe A No 73294 Kunstanstalt Schupp & Nierth, Dresden |
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Dresden's municipal administration issued emergency Notgeld in 1918 as the imperial banking system buckled under wartime strain and small-denomination coinage all but vanished from circulation. Stadt Dresden was among the more prolific municipal issuers in Saxony, and at 50 Mark this note sits at the upper end of what most German cities dared to float on their own credit.
Kunstanstalt Schupp & Nierth was a local Dresden commercial printing house — not a security printer — which makes the physical integrity of surviving examples worth scrutiny. Municipal Notgeld of this type was never intended to outlast the armistice.