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50 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Soest (City of Soest) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 50 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Green and red letterpress design with a geometric diamond-pattern underprint at centre, within which the city arms of Soest appear at top centre. The denomination numerals '50 50' are printed in large red figures flanking the coat of arms, with the written value 'Fünfzig Mark' in Gothic script below. The issuer's name 'Stadt Soest' is set in large black Fraktur lettering across the top, and a serial number with prefix letter 'A' appears at lower right. The lower portion carries a two-line redemption text in Gothic script, dated 'Soest, den 11. November 1922', with the magistrate's facsimile signature below. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Soest 50 50 Fünfzig Mark A zahlt die Stadthauptkasse Soest dem Einlieferer dieses Gutscheines. Dieser Gutschein verliert die Gültigkeit zwei Wochen nach öffentlicher Bekanntmachung im Soester Kreisblatt und im Soester Anzeiger. Soest, den 11. November 1922. Der Magistrat |
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Soest was one of hundreds of German municipalities that turned to Notgeld during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early 1920s, but the city had a particular administrative reason to issue higher-denomination notes by 1922: the Reichsbank's own supply of small and mid-range notes was chronically delayed, and local commerce — especially the weekly markets that Soest had hosted since medieval times — had effectively ground to a halt without workable circulating currency. The 50 Mark denomination sits at an awkward transitional point in that crisis, large enough to suggest genuine purchasing pressure but already being eroded by monthly inflation figures running into double digits.
W. Crüwell was a well-established Dortmund commercial printer, not a security specialist, which is typical for Westphalian municipal issues of this period. Redemption of most Soest Notgeld was formalized by late 1923 when Rentenmark stabilization made local emergency issues legally redundant.