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1 000 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Buer i.W. (City of Buer in Westphalia) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 1 000 000 000 000 Mark (1 000 000 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher printed in dark reddish-brown on pale paper, with a rectangular border enclosing the main design. The city arms of Buer — a shield divided with a castle motif — appear at the lower left, flanked by a vignette of a townscape or civic scene as underprint. A vertical coupon panel at the right edge carries the denomination '1000 MILLIARDEN MARK' in rotated letterpress. Two manuscript signatures appear above the issuing authority legend 'DER MAGISTRAT:' alongside a red oval stamp inscribed 'BUER'. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER STADT BUER I. W. EINE BILLION MARK ZAHLT DIE STADT-KASSE DER STADT BUER I. WESTF. DEM EINLIEFERER DIESES GUTSCHEINES BUER I. W., DEN 23. OKTOBER 1923 DER MAGISTRAT: DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT EINEN MONAT NACH AUFRUF IN DEN TAGESZEITUNGEN 1000 MILLIARDEN MARK |
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Buer in Westphalia — today absorbed into Gelsenkirchen — was one of hundreds of German municipalities forced to print its own emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank simply could not produce denominations fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. By the time notes in the trillion-mark range were being issued, a single denomination jump could represent less than a day's worth of devaluation. This particular notgeld was authorised and circulated at the peak of the crisis, before the Rentenmark stabilisation of November 1923 rendered the entire series worthless overnight.
Municipal issues of this type were often printed on whatever stock was available locally, and quality varies considerably within the same series — DeNG catalogues multiple paper variants for this issue, with the "g" suffix indicating a documented printing distinction rather than mere condition difference.