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50 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Landsberg an der Warthe |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Printer | Carl Flemming A.G., Glogau u. Berlin, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Orange and dark green Kriegsgeld note with an elaborate guilloche border and repeating numeral underprint. The denomination "Fünfzig Mark" is rendered in large Gothic blackletter script across the upper field, with the numeral "50" set within a central oval guilloche cartouche. The issuing authority "Der Magistrat der Stadt Landsberg a.d. Warthe" is inscribed in the lower panel, accompanied by two manuscript facsimile signatures and a red serial number at lower left. The printer's imprint "Carl Flemming A.G. Glogau u. Berlin" appears at the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Fünfzig Mark 50 Fünfzig Mark 50 Dieser Schein wird ungültig, wenn er nicht einen Monat nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung in den hiesigen Zeitungen unserer Stadthauptkasse zur Zahlung vorgelegt wird. Der Magistrat der Stadt Landsberg a.d. Warthe. |
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Landsberg an der Warthe — now Gorzów Wielkopolski in western Poland — issued this 50 Mark note during the hyperinflationary spiral of 1922, when municipal and regional authorities across Germany were printing their own emergency currency (Notgeld) simply to keep wages paid and commerce moving. The Reichsbank could not print fast enough. Local magistrates filled the gap.
Carl Flemming A.G. of Glogau was a well-established commercial printer with a long track record in maps and book printing — not a specialist security printer. The presence of a watermark is worth noting given that background; it suggests the magistrat was at least attempting minimal anti-counterfeiting provisions at a moment when the notes' face value was depreciating faster than the ink could dry.