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1 000 000 000 Mark Schussenried; Staatlich Württembergische Torfverwaltung
| Issuer | Staatlich Württembergische Torfverwaltung (State Württemberg Peat Administration), Schussenried |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | Vereinigte Buchdruckereien Buchau-Schussenried-Aulendorf |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld voucher printed in black on pale grey paper with a geometric wave-and-diamond underprint and a decorative scroll border. The denomination '1 000 000 000 Mk.' is set in the upper corners; the large central inscription 'Eine Milliarde' is rendered in ornate Fraktur blackletter script. A circular issuer's stamp and two manuscript signatures appear at lower right, with date and place of issue at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Nr. [serial number] 1 000 000 000 Mk. Gutschein über Eine Milliarde Gegen diesen Gutschein vergüten wir bis zum 31. Dezember 1923 den Betrag von Einer Milliarde in bar oder durch Bankchecks, sowie die Oberamtssparkassen Waldsee, Zweigstelle Schussenried, Riedlingen, Zweigstelle Buchau und Ravensburg. Schussenried 22. Oktober 1923. Staatl. Württ. Torfverwaltung Vereinigte Buchdruckereien Buchau-Schussenried-Aulendorf. (Translation: No. [serial number] / 1,000,000,000 Mk. / Voucher / for / One Billion / Against this voucher, we will pay the amount of One Billion in cash or by bank checks until December 31, 1923, as well as at the Oberamt Savings Banks Waldsee, Schussenried Branch, Riedlingen, Buchau Branch and Ravensburg. / Schussenried, October 22, 1923. / State Württemberg Peat Administration / United Printing Works Buchau-Schussenried-Aulendorf.) |
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One of the stranger issuers in the Württemberg hyperinflation corpus: a state peat administration. Schussenried, in upper Swabia, sat at the edge of the Federsee moor, and the extraction works there were substantial enough that the state entity managing them qualified — under the emergency currency decrees of 1923 — to issue Notgeld against their own operational payroll needs. The printer, Vereinigte Buchdruckereien, was a regional cooperative press serving the Buchau-Schussenried-Aulendorf triangle, not a specialist security printer.
The denomination reflects where Germany stood in late 1923, when a billion marks was roughly bus fare.