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50 Mark Reichsbanknote
| Issuer | Reichsbank |
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| Year | 1906-1910 |
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| Reference(s) | P#26, Rosen/Grab#32 |
| Obverse description | Two facing busts of Germania in mirror symmetry form the central vignette, framed by elaborate guilloche lacework and Fraktur script inscriptions stating issuer and value. Two red circular seals anchor the lower corners of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Reichsbanknote. Funfzig Mark zahlt die Reichsbankhauptkasse in Berlin ohne Legitimationsprüfung dem Einlieferer dieser Banknote. 50 50 Berlin, den 10. März 1906. Reichsbankdirektorium (Translation: Reichsbanknote. Fifty marks the Reichsbankhauptkasse in Berlin will pay the deliverer of this banknote without any legitimation check. 50 50 Berlin, March 10, 1906. Reichsbank Directorate) |
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The Reichsbank's 50 Mark denomination occupied an awkward middle position in the pre-war German monetary system — large enough to be treated with caution in daily transactions, small enough to circulate actively among the merchant class. Notes from the 1906–1910 issue period span the final years before the pressures of the arms buildup began distorting German public finance, and examples that survived into the war years were increasingly displaced by emergency Darlehnskassenscheine after 1914.
The Reichsdruckerei in Berlin handled the full production run, as it had since the consolidation of imperial printing operations in 1879. Rosen/Grab 32 is reasonably well documented, though wear patterns on circulated survivors tend to concentrate along the horizontal center fold — a reliable indicator of how this denomination was typically stored and handled in commerce.