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20 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Freie Hansestadt Bremen (Die Finanzdeputation) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Engraver(s) | Dahle |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress note with a geometric border running the full perimeter. The upper vignette presents two heraldic lions rampant flanking the Bremen coat of arms — a white key on a black shield — rendered in a bold Art Deco woodcut style against a hatched underprint. Below the vignette, the text 'GUTSCHEIN ÜBER' separates the heraldic panel from the large Gothic-script denomination '20 Milliarden Mark' occupying the centre of the note. The lower section carries the issue date 'BREMEN, DEN 23. OKTOBER 1923', the issuing authority 'DIE FINANZDEPUTATION', a circular official stamp at left, two manuscript signatures, and a serial number at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | FREIE HANSESTADT BREMEN 20 Milliarden Mark Dieser Gutschein wird in der Stadt Bremen von allen bremischen Staatskassen in Zahlung genommen – Er verliert seine Gültigkeit 2 Wochen nach erfolgter Aufkündigung in den Bremer Tageszeitungen KUPFERTIEFDRUCK CARL SCHÜNEMANN BREMEN DAHLE |
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Bremen's Finanzdeputation issued this 20-billion Mark note at the absolute peak of the Weimar hyperinflation, when denominations were escalating so fast that notes became worthless between printing and distribution. Carl Schünemann was a Bremen-based publishing house pressed into emergency currency work — far from a specialist security printer, which shows in the relatively simple production. The engraver Dahle is credited in the plate, an unusual attribution for notgeld of this period.
Bremen, as a Free Hanseatic City, had its own fiscal authority and issued regional emergency currency independently of the Reichsbank framework throughout 1923.