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100 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 000 000 Marks (100 000 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on a fine guilloche underprint in grey, divided into two vertical panels. The left panel carries the title 'Aushilfsschein' in Gothic script above the large-format denomination 'Einhundert Milliarden Mark', with the issuing authority, legal tender clause, date of 29 October 1923, and two manuscript signatures flanking a circular Finanzdeputation seal at the foot. The right panel is dominated by a circular vignette of the Hamburg coat of arms — a white castle on red, surmounted by elaborate baroque mantling and civic flags — with the word 'Milliarden' set in bold Gothic type below. |
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| Obverse lettering | Aushilfsschein der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg Einhundert Milliarden Mark Dieser Aushilfsschein wird von allen hamburgischen staatlichen Kassen und den Banken in Hamburg in Zahlung genommen. Hamburg, den 29. Oktober 1923. Die Finanzdeputation: Die Hauptstaatskasse: (printed signature). (printed signature) Broschek & Co., Hamburg (Translation: Temporary Certificate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg One Hundred Billion Marks This temporary certificate is accepted in payment by all Hamburg state treasuries and banks in Hamburg. Hamburg, October 29, 1923. The Finance Deputation: The Capital State Treasury: (printed signature). (printed signature) Broschek & Co., Hamburg) |
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Hamburg was among dozens of German municipalities forced into emergency currency production during the hyperinflation crisis of 1923, as the Reichsbank's output simply could not keep pace with denominations that were doubling weekly. Broschek & Co. was primarily a commercial printing house — their involvement here reflects the desperation of local authorities to source any printer capable of handling the volume, not a considered choice of specialist security printers.
By the time notes at this denomination were issued in late 1923, the purchasing power they represented had already collapsed before the ink dried.