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1 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Finanzdeputation der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Aushilfsschein der Freien und Hansestadt HAMBURG Milliarde Mark Eine Milliarde Mark Dieser Aushilfsschein wird von allen hamburgischen staatlichen Kassen und den Banken in Hamburg in Zahlung genommen. Hamburg, den 12. Oktober 1923. Die Finanzdeputation: Die Hauptstaatskasse: |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, left as plain cream-coloured paper with no design, text, or ornamentation, consistent with the emergency issue character of this Notgeld Aushilfsschein. |
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Hamburg's Finanzdeputation issued this billion-Mark note at the absolute peak of the Weimar hyperinflation spiral — by late 1923, the Reichsmark had collapsed so completely that municipal and regional authorities across Germany were printing their own emergency currency, Notgeld, simply to keep commerce moving. A milliard Mark note that would have been unthinkable twelve months earlier was, by August or September 1923, barely sufficient for a tram fare.
Broschek & Co. was a Hamburg commercial printing house, not a security printer, and the haste of production under inflationary pressure shows in the relatively simple typography-driven design these issues typically relied on.