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50 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Remscheid (City of Remscheid) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Remscheid Fünfzig Mark Zahlt die Stadtkasse in Remscheid dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines Remscheid den 15. Nov. 1918 Der Oberbürgermeister: Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit 3 Monate nach erfolgter Aufkündigung in den Remscheider Zeitungen. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in green and dominated by a large central vignette set within a dotted circular field, showing the heraldic coat of arms of Remscheid flanked by two standing male supporters in period dress, with an eagle displayed above. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large figures to the left and right of the central vignette. The inscriptions 'Stadt' and 'Remscheid' are placed in the lower field on either side, and the entire design is enclosed within the same intricate guilloche rosette border as the obverse. |
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Remscheid's 50 Mark Notgeld from 1918 belongs to the early, high-denomination wave of municipal emergency money issued as the imperial financial system buckled under wartime strain. Most Notgeld of this period was produced locally under improvised conditions, and Remscheid — a significant industrial town in the Bergisches Land, heavily tied to tool and arms manufacturing — had both the economic weight to justify larger denominations and the pressing need for circulating currency as Reichsbank notes drained out of the regions.
High-denomination municipal issues from 1918 are considerably less common than the small-change Notgeld that flooded Germany in 1921–22. Different problem, different moment.