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100 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Singen-Hohentwiel |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | Singener Verlagsgesellschaft |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Singen-Hohentwiel Serie C Dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines zahlt die Stadtgemeinde Singen-Hohentwiel Hundert Milliarden Mark Die Einlösung erfolgt bei der Stadtkasse, Bezirksparkasse und allen hiesigen Banken. Nach Aufruf in den hiesigen Zeitungen verliert dieser Schein seine Gültigkeit. Singen-Hohentwiel, den 6. November 1923. Für den Gemeinderath: Singener Verlagsgesellschaft. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and shows the plain cream paper stock, with the obverse design faintly visible in show-through. No text, vignette, or ornamental elements are present on this side. |
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Singen-Hohentwiel issued this hundred-billion Mark note at the absolute peak of Weimar hyperinflation — October 1923, when the Reichsbank's own supply chains had collapsed under the arithmetic of daily price collapses. Municipal and commercial entities across Germany were legally permitted to issue emergency currency, Notgeld, to keep local wages and commerce moving. Singen, a small industrial town on the Rhine near the Swiss border, printed its own through the local Singener Verlagsgesellschaft rather than contracting to a major printing house.
The hundred-billion denomination is not unusual for this period — it was already behind the curve by the time the ink dried.