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Notes / OM-00562

50 Reichsmark, Reichskreditkassen

Reichskreditkassenschein — Fünfzig Reichsmark

AlbumGermany Germany series 1939 AU common
Obverse 600 dpi
Reverse 600 dpi

This copy

Accession
OM-00562
Serial
C 7242911
Series year
1939
Actually issued
1939
Signatures
This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.
Grade
AU (IBNS)

Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.

Estimated value
$36 indicative

Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-10-03.

Dimensions
163.3 × 75.8 mm (±0.6, from the scan)
Themes
Second World WarOccupation currencyPortrait

The type

Type
50 Reichsmark, Reichskreditkassen
Printer
Not established
Rarity
common

Inscriptions

Obverse — occupation currency

Ausgegeben auf Grund der Verordnung über Reichskreditkassen. Hauptverwaltung der Reichskreditkassen.

Issued under the ordinance on Reich Credit Banks — legal tender only in occupied territory, redeemable by the occupied country's own central bank.

Symbology

Woman in a headscarf
A Renaissance-style female portrait on the face.
Marienburg (Malbork)
The castle of the Teutonic Order in occupied Poland on the reverse — a symbol of German claims in the East.
Reichsadler with swastika
The eagle of the Third Reich on money valid only where the Wehrmacht stood.

What was happening

A Reichskreditkassenschein, the top value of the German occupation currency, legal tender only in the territories the Wehrmacht held. Undated, issued from 1939.

The face carries a portrait of a woman in a headscarf in the German Renaissance manner; the back shows the Marienburg (Malbork), the great castle of the Teutonic Order, then in occupied Poland — a pointed choice of imagery for money that financed the occupation of the East. Part of the Reichskreditkassen series with the 1, 2, 5 and 20 Reichsmark notes ([[germany-1-reichsmark-reichskreditkassen]], [[germany-2-reichsmark-reichskreditkassen]], [[germany-5-reichsmark-reichskreditkassen]], [[germany-20-reichsmark-reichskreditkassen]]).

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 50 Reichsmark, Reichskreditkassen in the collection.

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