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50 Mark
| Issuer | Stadthauptkasse Stralsund (City of Stralsund) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark reddish-brown on a pale beige ground, with an elaborate guilloche underprint covering the entire field. A central circular vignette contains the coat of arms of Stralsund — a heraldic eagle above a shield — framed by foliate scrollwork. The denomination 'Fünfzig Mark' is rendered in bold Gothic (Fraktur) script across the centre, with the numeral '50' repeated in ornamental medallions at each corner. The issuing authority text appears in two lines above the central vignette, the date 'den 6. November 1922' is at lower left, and two manuscript signatures appear at the lower centre and right beneath the designation 'Bürgermeister und Rat'. |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Stadthauptkasse in Stralsund zahlt gegen diesen Schein an den Inhaber Fünfzig Mark Stralsund, den 6. November 1922 Bürgermeister und Rat Druck von F.A. Brockhaus, Leipzig. |
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Stralsund's Stadthauptkasse — the municipal treasury — issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped German cities in 1922, well before hyperinflation peaked but at a moment when Reichsbank notes were already losing ground to locally issued Notgeld faster than they could be printed. F. A. Brockhaus, the Leipzig firm better known as one of Germany's most distinguished encyclopedia publishers, had by this point pivoted substantially toward emergency currency printing to meet overwhelming municipal demand.
At 50 Mark, this sits at the upper edge of what most city treasuries were issuing in paper Notgeld — denominations this high were typically a response to rapid price movement rather than coin substitution.