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1 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Apolda (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 110 × 76 mm |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green Notgeld note printed on plain paper, with a guilloche underprint forming four ornamental rosettes at the corners and a central cloud-like vignette. The large numeral '1' and the denomination 'Eine Milliarde Mark' are set in bold Gothic blackletter type at the centre, flanked by the value '1 Milliarde' repeated in each corner. Below the denomination, a letterpress text block states the redemption conditions and the issue date 'Apolda, den 12. Oktober 1923', beneath which appear two manuscript facsimile signatures above the titles 'Oberbürgermeister' and 'Vorsitzender', with the city arms of Apolda as a central vignette between them. Series letter and serial number are printed in the lower margin, with the printer's imprint 'Adolf Forker, Leipzig' at the lower right. |
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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. |
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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.