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20 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeindekasse Brunndöbra (Municipality of Brunndöbra, Saxony) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein. Serie D Genehmigt vom Reichsfinanzministerium. Zwanzig Milliarden Mark zahlen die Gemeindekassen in Brunndöbra gegen Rückgabe dieses Scheines innerhalb der bekanntgegebenen Laufzeit. Der Gemeinderat. Brunndöbra, den 27. Oktober 1923. Gemeinde-Vorstand. Gültig bis zum Aufruse im amtlichen Bekanntmachungsblatte. 20 Milliarden |
| Reverse description | The reverse is an unprinted show-through of the obverse letterpress impression, appearing as a mirror image in pale grey tones on the plain paper stock, with no additional design, text, or security elements applied to this side. |
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Brunndöbra was a small textile-industry village in the Vogtland district of Saxony, and like hundreds of German municipalities in late 1923, it printed its own emergency currency when the Reichsbank could no longer supply denominations large enough to meet daily payroll demands. The 20 billion Mark figure is not an exaggeration or a collectible novelty — it reflects the hyperinflation peak reached in October and November 1923, when a single loaf of bread could cost tens of billions of marks and factory workers were paid twice daily to outrun price increases.
Gemeindekasse issues at this denomination level typically had lifespans measured in days before being rendered obsolete by yet another zero.