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1 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Saulgau (City of Saulgau) |
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| Year | 1924 |
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| Value | 1 000 000 000 Mark (1 000 000 000) |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted white paper; uniface note with text visible as a show-through from the obverse impression. The pear-pattern watermark (Birnenmuster) is visible when held to light. |
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| Protection description | Birnenmuster (pear pattern) watermark, catalogued as Keller#13 |
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Saulgau was a small Württemberg market town — not the kind of place you'd expect to find itself printing billion-mark emergency currency, yet here it is. This note belongs to the final, almost surreal phase of Weimar hyperinflation, when municipal authorities across Germany were legally empowered to issue Notgeld simply to keep commerce moving. By late 1923, the Reichsbank's own presses couldn't produce denominations fast enough to match purchasing power collapsing by the hour.
Gebr. Edel was a local printing firm — the watermarked paper signals a deliberate attempt at credibility for a note whose face value would be worthless within weeks of issue.