10 000 000 000 Mark

Eschershausen is a small town in Lower Saxony, and by late 1923 even municipalities of its size were compelled to print their own emergency currency — Notgeld — because Reichsbank notes were arriving so far behind the inflation curve that local commerce had effectively broken down. The 10 billion Mark denomination places this firmly in the hyperinflation endgame: the Rentenmark stabilization came in November 1923, after which virtually all municipal issues were called in and destroyed, making survivors disproportionately scarce relative to their original print runs.

C. Bruns was a local Eschershausen printer, not a specialist currency house, which shows in the production quality typical of provincial Notgeld from this period. Printed and issued in the same town — an unusual circumstance in an era when most smaller municipalities contracted with larger regional printers.