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2 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Triberg (City of Triberg, Baden) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 2 000 000 000 Marks (2 000 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | Schuld-Schein Zwei Milliarden Mark schuldet die Stadtgemeinde Triberg dem Inhaber dieses Schuldscheines. Der Zeitpunkt der Heimzahlung wird öffentlich bekannt gemacht werden. Triberg, den 15. Oktober 1923 Der Gemeinderat: I. H. (Translation: Promissory Note Two Billion Marks are owed by the city of Triberg to the holder of this promissory note. The time of repayment will be publicly announced. Triberg, October 15, 1923 The Municipal Council: I. H.) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted, showing plain cream-coloured paper with faint offset impressions from the obverse and minor soiling consistent with circulation. |
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Triberg's two-billion mark note dates from the most acute phase of the German hyperinflation — autumn 1923, when municipal and regional authorities across the Reich were printing their own emergency currency (Notgeld) simply because the Reichsbank could not supply denominations large enough to cover daily transactions. The Stadtgemeinde Triberg, a small Black Forest spa town with no banking infrastructure of its own, was one of hundreds of minor German municipalities forced into issuing paper money as a matter of basic commerce.
The denomination itself tells the story. By October 1923 a single postage stamp cost billions of marks. Notes like this one had a usable life measured in days before the face value was rendered functionally worthless by the next wave of price increases.