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50 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Frankfurt am Main |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Size | 150 × 96 mm |
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| Obverse description | Bicolour Notgeld voucher (Gutschein) in green and ochre, printed in Fraktur blackletter script, with the issuer's title 'Stadt Frankfurt am Main.' arched across the upper margin above an elaborate guilloche border enclosing four ornamental corner rosettes. The central medallion carries the denomination 'Fünfzig Mark' in bold blackletter over a multicolour lathe-work underprint, flanked by two lines of redemption text referencing the Stadtkasse Frankfurt am Main. The place and date 'Frankfurt am Main, 15. September 1922.' appear at lower left, with a manuscript signature on behalf of 'Der Magistrat:' at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein 50 Mark 50 Mark 50 Mark 50 Mark 50 der Stadt Frankfurt a.M. August Osterrieth, Frankfurt a.M. |
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Frankfurt am Main was one of the few German cities with both the administrative prestige and the local printing infrastructure to produce its own notgeld at this scale. August Osterrieth was a Frankfurt-based fine art and commercial printer with roots in the city going back to the nineteenth century — using them kept production local and relatively fast during the inflationary acceleration of 1922, when municipal authorities couldn't rely on Reichsdruckerei turnaround times.
By late 1922 the 50 Mark denomination was already losing practical utility as inflation outpaced it within weeks of issue.