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10 000 000 000 Mark Vöhrenbach
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Vöhrenbach |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 10 000 000 000 Marks (10 000 000 000) |
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| Reverse description | Reverse carries a bold Fraktur denomination header above a large landscape vignette in black and ochre, depicting the Linachtalsperre — identified by a cartouche inscription as Germany's first dissolved reinforced-concrete dam — set among Black Forest conifers with a mountain ridge beyond. The serial number is typeset in red at centre top. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Vöhrenbach is a small town in the Black Forest, and like hundreds of German municipalities in late 1923, it was forced into the notgeld business not by choice but by the complete breakdown of Reichsbank supply. By the time denominations reached ten billion marks, the inflation had so thoroughly outpaced printing capacity that local authorities were issuing emergency paper just to cover weekly wages — sometimes daily ones.
Kirchberg G.m.b.H. in nearby Furtwangen handled production, with C. Beck credited for the design. The presence of a watermark at this denomination and date is worth noting — most municipal issuers at this stage had abandoned security features entirely as pointless given the notes' near-instant obsolescence.