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10 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Finanzdeputation der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed Aushilfsschein on uncoloured paper, with a dense guilloche border running along all four margins. The central legend "Zehn Milliarden Mark" is set in bold, large-face type, flanked by numeral "10" panels at left and right, while the heading "Aushilfsschein der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg" appears above in smaller roman type with a red serial number and asterisk at the top right. At the foot, two manuscript signatures are separated by a circular embossed cachet reading "FINANZDEPUTATION HAMBURG", with the printer's imprint of Broschek & Co., Hamburg centred in the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 10 673923 * Aushilfsschein der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg Zehn Milliarden Mark Dieser Aushilfsschein wird von allen hamburgischen staatlichen Kassen und den Banken in Hamburg in Zahlung genommen. Hamburg, den 15. Oktober 1923. Die Finanzdeputation: Die Hauptstaatskasse: FINANZDEPUTATION HAMBURG Broschek & Co. Hamburg |
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Hamburg's Finanzdeputation issued this note during the most violent phase of the Weimar hyperinflation, when municipal and regional authorities across Germany were authorized to print their own emergency currency — Notgeld — to keep commerce moving as Reichsbank denominations were rendered obsolete within days of issue. By October 1923, ten billion marks would barely cover a tram fare.
Broschek & Co. was primarily a Hamburg printing and newspaper firm, not a specialist banknote printer. That detail matters: the press infrastructure being pulled into currency production by late 1923 reflects how completely the specialized financial printing system had been overwhelmed by demand.