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10 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Buer (City of Buer i. W.) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 10 000 000 000 Mark (10 000 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Plain unadorned face printed in black letterpress on cream paper, with no pictorial vignette or guilloche underprint. The heading 'Gutschein der Stadt Buer i. W.' appears in Gothic script at the top, above a promise-to-pay text naming the Stadtkasse Buer as obligor; the denomination 'Zehn Milliarden' is set in large decorative Fraktur lettering across the centre field. A vertical denomination panel at the right margin, enclosed in a ruled border, reads '10 Milliarden Mk. 10' in rotated text, with the issue date 'Buer i. A., den 16. Oktober 1923' and two manuscript signatures under the legend 'Der Magistrat:' at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Buer i. W. Die Stadtkasse Buer zahlt dem Einlieferer dieses Gutscheines Zehn Milliarden Der Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufruf in den Buerschen Tageszeitungen. Buer i. A., den 16. Oktober 1923. Der Magistrat: 10 Milliarden Mk. 10 |
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Buer in Westphalia was a coal-mining town absorbed into Gelsenkirchen in 1928, which means the Stadtkasse that issued this note no longer existed as an administrative entity within five years of printing it. The denomination — ten billion Mark — places this squarely in the hyperinflation peak of late 1923, when municipal treasuries across Germany were printing emergency currency faster than the Reichsbank could supply anything usable.
Local Notgeld at this denomination was typically printed on whatever stock was available, often on a single side, with rudimentary typography. Buer's issues from this period are modestly scarce simply because the town was small.