Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 000 000 000 Mark Vereinigung von Hamburger Banken und Bankiers
| Issuer | Vereinigung von Hamburger Banken und Bankiers |
|---|---|
| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Uniface emergency issue on firm, textured white paper with a light orange gradient underprint. The central text block, set within a dark green border frame, carries the denomination in large Gothic blackletter type reading 'Zehn Milliarden Mark', surrounded by the full legal text of the Gutschein voucher. Serial number printed in black in six digits within a raster field marked 'Nr.' |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Blank, uniface note with no printed design on the reverse. The paper shows through-show of the obverse letterpress impression and the honeycomb watermark pattern. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Vereinigung von Hamburger Banken und Bankiers — an association of private Hamburg banks acting collectively — issued emergency currency during the hyperinflation peak of late 1923, when the Reichsbank could not print fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. Ten billion marks was not an unusual face value for that autumn; within weeks of notes like this entering circulation, the denomination was already functionally obsolete.
Persiehl was a Hamburg-based printer with an established commercial reputation, not a specialist security printer, which is worth noting when evaluating the watermark as the primary — and thin — anti-counterfeiting measure.