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10 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeindekasse Brunndöbra |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | Buch- und Steindruckerei Lukas Mißbach, Brunndöbra |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note of typeset letterpress construction, printed in black text over a pale green underprint comprising a large numeral '10' and the word 'MILLIARDEN' running vertically along the right margin, with decorative Art Nouveau scroll vignettes flanking the denomination panel. The note is issued in the name of the Girokasse Brunndöbra, charged to account No. 410, with the denomination 'Zehn Milliarden Mark' set in bold display type across the centre. A circular violet official municipality stamp is applied at lower centre, accompanied by two manuscript signatures, and the printer's imprint appears at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gültig bis zum Aufrufe im amtlichen Bekanntmachungsblatte. Serie K Nr. (SN) Gut für Mk. 10.000.000.000 Die Girokasse Brunndöbra wolle vergüten zu Lasten unseres Kontos Nr. 410 Zehn Milliarden Mark Brunndöbra, 25. Okt. 1923 Die Gemeindekasse. Nicht girieren! Buch- u. Steindruckerei Lukas Mißbach, Brunndöbra. |
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Brunndöbra was a small Saxon village — a municipality so minor it barely registered in regional administration — yet in October 1923 it was printing its own ten-billion-mark emergency notes, as were hundreds of German towns and parishes scrambling to fill a currency vacuum the Reichsbank could no longer plug. Gemeindekasse notes of this type were issued under emergency authorization (Notgeld), redeemable in theory against official currency that was itself losing value faster than the ink dried.
The printer, Lukas Mißbach, was a local firm — not a specialist banknote house — which is exactly why these provincial issues vary so sharply in paper quality and registration across surviving examples.