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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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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Thick smooth off-white paper with an olive-green printed frame and text block in black letterpress. A three-digit serial number with prefix and asterisk appears at upper right in black. A circular violet ink stamp is applied at lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | Oberamtsstadt Saulgau. Mk. 1,000 000 000 STADTGEMEINDE Lohnscheck die Girokasse der Oberamtssparkasse Saulgau zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus unserem Guthaben EINE MILLIARDE MARK Saulgau,den 24.Oktober 1923. Stadtpflege: |
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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.