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1 000 000 000 Mark Darlehenskassenverein
| Issuer | Darlehenskassenverein Triftern G.m.u.H. |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain pink-tinted underprint with a light guilloche pattern forming the background field, enclosed within a dotted rectangular border. The denomination 'Eine Milliarde Mark' is set in large bold letterpress type at the centre, with the issuer's name and cheque text printed above in smaller roman type. Three manuscript signatures of issuing officials appear at the lower right, alongside a small handwritten cancellation stamp in violet at the upper right corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | Scheck No 1154 Mark 1.000.000.000 Der Darlehenskassenverein Triftern G. m. u. H. zahlt gegen diesen Scheck den Betrag von Eine Milliarde Mark an den Ueberbringer Oktober 1923 Darlehenskassenverein Triftern. Wir verpflichten uns zur Bareinlösung dieses Schecks nach Behebung der bestehenden Zahlungsmittelknappheit. |
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Triftern is a small market town in Lower Bavaria, and by late 1923 even rural cooperative lending societies — Darlehenskassenvereine — were printing their own emergency currency to keep local commerce functioning. The Reichsbank's printing infrastructure had completely lost the race against hyperinflation by that point; a billion marks was not an exceptional denomination but a routine one.
Local Notgeld of this type was produced in very short runs, often on whatever paper stock was available, and had an extremely brief circulation window before the denomination became worthless again within days. The Rentenmark reform of November 1923 rendered the entire series void almost immediately after issue.