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1 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Apolda (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 1 000 000 000 Mark (1 000 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Apolda 1 Milliarde Eine Milliarde Mark zahlt die Stadtkasse Apolda gegen diesen Schein dem Einlieferer - Vier Wochen nach Aufruf verliert der Schein seine Gültigkeit Apolda, den 12. Oktober 1923 Der Stadtdirektor: Der Stadtrat: Oberbürgermeister Vorsitzender Serie F ADOLF FORKER, LEIPZIG. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, consisting of plain uncoated paper in a uniform pale straw tone, entirely without text, vignette, or ornamental elements. |
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Apolda is a small textile-manufacturing town in Thuringia, better known historically for its hosiery and bell-foundry industries than for its currency. During the hyperinflation of 1923, German municipalities were legally empowered to issue their own emergency notes — Notgeld — to compensate for the Reichsbank's inability to supply sufficient denominations fast enough. By the time a billion-mark denomination was necessary, the inflation had reached a point where even this note would have been functionally obsolete within days of printing.
Adolf Forker was a Leipzig commercial printer producing Notgeld for numerous Thuringian municipalities simultaneously during this period — not a specialist security printer.