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50 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Dortmund (for the Stadt- und Landkreise Dortmund und Hörde) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfzig Mark REINOLD DAS HAIMONSKIND Gros zvein Glocklein zahlen die städtischen Kassen in Dortmund und Hörde sowie die Kreis-Stadt-Amts-Spar- u. Gemeindekassen in den Landkreisen Dortmund und Hörde dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines. DORTMUND, AM 10. OKTOBER 1922 Für die Stadt- und Landkreise Dortmund und Hörde: Der Magistrat der Stadt Dortmunds AUSGEGEBEN MIT GENEHMIGUNG DES REICHSMINISTERS DER FINANZEN AUF GRUND DES REICHSGESETZES VOM 17. JULI 1922 (REICHSGESETZBLATT VON 14.8.1922) DIESER SCHEIN WIRD UNGÜLTIG EINEN MONAT NACH ÖFFENTLICHEM AUFRUF. |
| Reverse description | Printed in brown and orange on a pale yellow wavy-line underprint within an ornamental orange border, the reverse is dominated by a central rectangular vignette signed 'LANDWANDMAN' at lower right, depicting a pastoral and industrial landscape in which a shepherd guides his flock across a bridge in the foreground, with smoking factory chimneys, a pine forest, and a starry sky in the distance, and an oak-wreath medallion at upper left. Two large stylised ornamental cartouches in orange and brown flank the vignette at left and right. Poetic verses in Gothic cursive script are arranged in ribbon-like banners across all four corners, and the printer's imprint 'West-Werbe-Dienst-Dortmund.' appears at the lower margin beneath the central vignette. |
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Dortmund's municipal authority issued this note under the emergency currency (Notgeld) provisions that flooded Germany with locally produced paper during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early 1920s. The Stadt- und Landkreise designation is worth noting — this note circulated across both the urban Dortmund district and the adjacent Hörde Landkreis, giving it a slightly broader territorial remit than purely city-issued Notgeld.
West-Werbe-Dienst was primarily an advertising firm, not a specialist security printer. That a commercial print shop was producing regional currency says everything about how far normal monetary infrastructure had broken down by 1922.