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1 000 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Bielefeld (Stadt Bielefeld) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 140 × 82 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT SPARKASSE BIELEFELD 1 BILLION M ZAHLE GEGEN DIESEN SCHECK AUS GUTHABEN AN UNS ODER ÜBERBRINGER EINE BILLION MARK · BIELEFELD, DEN 16. NOVEMBER 1923 BIELEFELD, DEN 15.12.1922 STADTRAT DRUCK: E. GUNDLACH A.G. BIELEFELD GESETZLICH GESCHÜTZT D.G.M. FROH EIN GEWIMMEL MÖCHT ICH SEHN, AUF FREIEM GRUND MIT FREIEM VOLK ZU STEHN VERWEILE DOCH, DU BIST SO SCHÖN! ES KANN DIE SPUR VON MEINEN ERDEN TAGEN NICHT IN ÄONEN UNTERGEHN ZUM AUGENBLICKE DURFT ICH SAGEN |
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| Reverse lettering | STADT SPARKASSE BIELEFELD EINE BILLION MARK VERSAILLES-TRAKTAT FRIEDENSVERTRAG O FLUCH! O SCHANDE SOLCHEN TROPEN! SATANE STEHEN AUF DEN KÖPFEN, DIE PLUM- DEUTSCH, BEZAHLER FÜR FEINDBSATZ IN RHEINL. 14 JAHRE DIE WIEGE DER BIELEFELDER NÄHMASCHINEN-INDUSTRIE ERST STRECKT DICH, DEUTSCHE KRIEGSENTSCHÄDIGUNG BILLION MARK + 1 BILLION MARK TISCHLEIN DECK DICH: KNÜPPEL AUS DEM SACK |
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Bielefeld occupies a peculiar niche in Weimar hyperinflation history. The city's savings bank issued notgeld denominated in the billions and trillions of marks during the autumn of 1923 — the same weeks when a single US dollar could fetch over four trillion marks on the open exchange. This one-trillion-mark note was not a curiosity or a souvenir at issue; it was functional spending money for groceries.
E. Gundlach A.G. was a Bielefeld-based commercial printer pressed into emergency currency production alongside dozens of similar regional firms across Germany. The Schreiber design credit likely refers to an in-house or contracted commercial artist rather than a specialist banknote engraver — the economics of late 1923 left no time for anything more.