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2 000 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt- und Landkreis Aachen |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed Notgeld voucher in green and salmon-orange on white paper, with a dense guilloche underprint filling the central field and a decorative geometric border. The issuer inscription "Stadt- und Landkreis Aachen" appears at the top centre flanked by asterisks, with the large denomination "Zwei Billionen Mark" set in bold display type across the middle. Two official circular seals bearing the Aachen eagle are impressed at lower left and lower right, flanking two manuscript facsimile signatures beneath the printed titles of the Oberbürgermeister and the Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses; the validity statement and circulation area are printed in a vertical left-margin panel. |
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| Signature(s) | Wickemann (i.V. for Der Oberbürgermeister) and Pütz (Der Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses) |
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By late 1923, German municipal authorities were printing their own emergency currency simply to meet payroll — the Reichsbank could not supply notes fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation. Aachen's Stadt- und Landkreis issued this 2 Trillion Mark note under dual signature: one for the city's Oberbürgermeister, countersigned by the chairman of the district committee, reflecting the unusual joint municipal-rural authority structure specific to this administrative unit.
The two-signature arrangement wasn't bureaucratic formality — it was a legal requirement of the joint issuing body, and notes missing either stamp were routinely refused at local businesses.