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1 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Chemnitz |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld voucher printed in black on pale rose-tinted paper with a decorative geometric border. Central vignette shows a letterpress view of the Bezirkskrankenhaus Rabenstein building; denomination "1 000 000 000 Mark" in diagonal letterpress flanks both sides. Fraktur blackletter script carries the issuing text and date above two manuscript signatures with printed role titles. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse showing bleed-through of the obverse letterpress impression on plain white paper, with no additional design elements. |
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A billion-mark note from a district-level administrative authority rather than a bank — the Amtshauptmannschaft Chemnitz was a Saxon regional office that took on emergency currency issuance during the hyperinflation of 1923 because the Reichsbank simply could not print fast enough to meet demand. These Notgeld issues at the billion-mark level were themselves nearly obsolete within weeks of printing; the inflation curve was accelerating so sharply that denominations requiring nine zeros were being superseded by trillion-mark notes before distribution was complete.
Locally printed in Chemnitz, which had a developed textile and printing industry infrastructure that made rapid small-run production feasible for municipal and district authorities.