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100 000 000 000 Mark Duderstadt
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Duderstadt |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | G. Hövener, Duderstadt |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld note printed in black letterpress on cream paper within a fine rectangular border of linked ornamental elements; the denomination 'Hundert Milliarden Mark' is set in large Gothic Fraktur blackletter type at centre, above a faint heraldic underprint, while a vertical left panel repeats the value '100 Milliarden Mark' in Fraktur script. Below the main denomination legend, the validity clause and issuance details 'Duderstadt, den 24. Oktober 1923' appear in letterpress, followed by the issuing authority line 'Der Magistrat' with a manuscript signature. A violet hand-stamped circular official seal of the Stadtmagistrat Duderstadt, bearing a rampant lion device, is applied at lower right. |
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| Protection description | Violet circular official hand stamp of the Stadtmagistrat Duderstadt, bearing a rampant lion device, applied to the obverse. |
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Duderstadt was a small Lower Saxon market town with no business issuing currency at any scale — yet here it is, printing hundred-billion mark notes in 1923. This is Notgeld at its most extreme, a local government forced into emergency paper production because Reichsbank supply had completely broken down under hyperinflation. G. Hövener was a local printer, not a security press, which means the official seal was doing essentially all the authentication work on a note denominated in figures that would have been incomprehensible twelve months earlier.
The hundred-billion mark denomination places this firmly in the final weeks of the hyperinflationary collapse, before the Rentenmark stabilization of November 1923 effectively rendered the entire series worthless overnight.