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20 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Dortmund (Stadt- und Landkreise Dortmund und Hörde) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note on plain paper with a fine guilloche underprint. A large ornate numeral '20' in decorative typographic style occupies the upper centre, above the bold denomination legend 'MILLIARDEN MARK'. Two circular eagle seals of the Stadt Dortmund flank the payment text and manuscript signatures at centre; red serial number at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | DIESER SCHEIN WIRD UNGÜLTIG EINEN MONAT NACH ÖFFENTLICHEM AUFRUF. 20 MILLIARDEN MARK zahlen die städtischen Kassen in Dortmund und Hörde sowie die Kreiskommunal-, Stadt-, Amts-, Spar- und Gemeindekassen in den Landkreisen Dortmund und Hörde dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines. DORTMUND, AM 25. OKTOBER 1923. Für die Stadt- und Landkreise Dortmund und Hörde. Der Magistrat der Stadt Dortmund SIEGEL DER STADT DORTMUND AUSGEGEBEN MIT GENEHMIGUNG DES REICHSMINISTERS DER FINANZEN. |
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Dortmund's municipal authority — covering both the city and the surrounding Landkreis Hörde — issued this 20 billion Mark note at the absolute peak of the Weimar hyperinflation, when the Reichsbank could not supply sufficient emergency currency fast enough to keep local economies functioning. Municipalities, districts, utilities, and private firms all printed their own Notgeld to fill the gap, and W. Crüwell was one of several Dortmund printers pressed into that service.
By November 1923, the denomination itself was nearly worthless before the ink dried.