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10 000 000 000 Mark Bühl
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Bühl (Municipality of Bühl) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Light blue guilloche underprint with repeated denomination and town name fills the central field, over which letterpress text is set in Gothic and Roman typefaces. A finely engraved vignette at right depicts a Black Forest landscape with a figure, conifer trees, and a wooden bridge or structure on rocky terrain. A municipal stamp and handwritten signature appear at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie II. Gut für Zehn Milliarden Mark Oktober 1923 Stadtgemeinde Bühl. Der Gemeinderat: Der Zeitpunkt, mit dem die Gültigkeit abläuft, wird in der Karlsruher Zeitung bekannt gemacht. Druck d. Konkordia Bühl (Baden). (Translation: Series II. Good for Ten Billion Marks. October 1923. Municipality of Bühl. The municipal council: The date on which it expires will be announced in the Karlsruhe Newspaper. Printed by Konkordia, Bühl (Baden).) |
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Ten billion marks. This is Weimar hyperinflation at its most vertiginous — by late 1923, the Reichsbank could not print fast enough, and municipal authorities across Germany were legally authorized to issue their own emergency currency, Notgeld, to keep local commerce functioning. Bühl, a small Baden town best known for its cherry orchards, was no exception.
Druckerei Konkordia, a local commercial printer based in Bühl itself, produced this note — which means quality control and paper stock were entirely a local decision, not a central one. The 10,000,000,000 Mark denomination dates this almost certainly to October or November 1923, the final weeks before the Rentenmark stabilization ended the crisis on November 15th.