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10 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Flensburg (Notgeld) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red and blue on cream paper, the obverse is framed by a decorative border of repeated scalloped and beaded motifs. At centre, a blue vignette of the Flensburg municipal coat of arms — a lion and tower device on a hatched shield — is set within a red cartouche flanked on either side by denomination panels inscribed '10 MILLIARDEN MARK' within ornamental frames. Below the central vignette, a full-width text block in Gothic script states the validity clause dated Flensburg, 24 Oktober 1923, signed by the Magistrat and Stadtverordneten-Kollegium, with a serial number in a red framed box at lower left and an official circular city stamp. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADT FLENSBURG 10 MILLIARDEN MARK ZEHN MILLIARDEN MARK Dieser Notgeldschein wird ungültig, wenn er nicht innerhalb der Frist, die vom Magistrat bekannt gemacht wird, zur Einlösung an einer der im Aufruf genannten Stellen vorgelegt ist. Flensburg, den 24. Okt. 1923 Magistrat - Stadtverordneten-Kollegium Nöbbe Aug. Westphalen Flensburg |
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Flensburg's ten-billion-mark Notgeld was issued in October 1923, deep inside the hyperinflationary collapse that made the Reichsmark functionally worthless within weeks of any printing run. Municipal authorities across Germany were issuing emergency denominations simply because the Reichsbank could not produce currency fast enough to keep pace with price increases that were, by that point, doubling daily.
Aug. Westphalen was a local commercial printer — not a specialist banknote firm — which was entirely typical of Notgeld production by late 1923, when security printing had long since become irrelevant to the task. Flensburg's particular position near the Danish border gave it slightly different economic pressures than inland German cities; Danish krone were circulating informally in the region as a de facto stable alternative.
The Rentenmark introduction on 15 November 1923 rendered notes like this one obsolete almost immediately after issue.