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50 Milliarden - Heilbronn
| Issuer | City of Heilbronn |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 50 000 000 000 Mark (50 000 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | NOT GELD 50 MILLIARDEN MARK HEILBRONN • A • 1923 • N • |
| Reverse description | Within a beaded border, a circular legend in Latin script runs around the entire periphery of the field. At center, three male figures in working dress are depicted in high relief, shown laboring in toil — consistent with miners or industrial workers, their postures bent and strained in a scene evoking physical hardship. The composition is rendered in a expressionist style characteristic of Weimar-era notgeld coinage, with strong modeling of the figures against a plain field. The encircling inscription conveys a political lament referencing labor and its unrewarded toil, directly reflecting the social grievances of the hyperinflationary period. |
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Heilbronn issued this 50-Milliarden piece at the absolute peak of Weimar hyperinflation — by late 1923, the Reichsmark had collapsed so completely that municipal governments across Germany were authorized to print their own emergency money, Notgeld, simply to keep local economies functional. At 50 billion marks, this single bronze coin represented a denomination that would have been mathematically inconceivable two years earlier.
The Funck 638.1A designation places it within a documented local series, though survival rates vary sharply across the Heilbronn notgeld issues.