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500 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Solingen (City of Solingen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | Kunstanstalt Hermann Rabitz, Solingen |
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| Obverse description | Pink and grey emergency note (Notgeld) with a salmon-pink guilloche underprint of repeating circular rosette patterns enclosed within a grey decorative border. The denomination '500 000 000' is printed in large bold numerals at centre, above the value spelled out in Gothic blackletter script as 'Fünfhundert Millionen Mark'. A circular official seal of the Stadt Solingen appears at lower centre, flanked by the date 'Solingen 20 September 1923' to the left and the facsimile signature of the Oberbürgermeister to the right, with a typeset serial number preceded by 'No' at lower left. A vertical strip attached to the left margin bears validity and circulation conditions referencing the Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf, with validity stated until 1 April 1924. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Solingen über 500 000 000 Fünfhundert Millionen Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von allen Kassen der Stadtgemeinde Solingen eingelöst Der Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit nach Ankündigung in den Solinger Zeitungen Solingen 20 September 1923 Der Oberbürgermeister Umlaufsfähig im ganzen altbesetzten Teile des Regierungsbezirks Düsseldorf — Gültig bis zum 1. April 1924 GUTSCHEIN * DER * STADT * SOLINGEN (Translation: Voucher of the City of Solingen for 500,000,000 / Five Hundred Million Mark / This voucher is redeemable at all cashiers of the municipality of Solingen / The voucher loses its validity upon announcement in the Solingen newspapers / Solingen, 20 September 1923 / The Lord Mayor / Valid throughout the entire occupied part of the administrative district of Düsseldorf — Valid until 1 April 1924) |
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Solingen's half-billion Mark note dates from the peak weeks of the German hyperinflation, when municipal authorities across the Reich were authorized to issue their own emergency currency — Notgeld — to fill the void left by a central government whose presses could not keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. By autumn 1923, denominations that would have seemed absurd eighteen months earlier were routine instruments of daily commerce, spent before the end of the trading day to avoid further loss of value.
Printed locally by Rabitz, whose primary business was commercial art rather than currency production. That detail matters: the technical quality of these municipal issues varied sharply, and Solingen's are generally considered among the more competently executed of the Rhineland series.