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20 000 000 000 Mark Cloppenburg
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Cloppenburg |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 154 x 85 mm |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher printed in Fraktur blackletter on a lilac geometric guilloche underprint. The left panel carries the oval city seal of Cloppenburg ("Sigillum Civitatis Cloppenburgensis, 1591") with a vignette of a bishop saint, flanked by large numeral "20" above and below. The right panel bears the text body in letterpress, with the denomination "Zwanzig Milliarden Mark" in bold display type, an alphanumeric serial in the upper-right corner, and two manuscript signatures below the issuing authority lines. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse showing show-through of the obverse letterpress text and guilloche underprint in mirror image, with no independent design elements. The thin paper stock renders the bold denomination and serial number legible in reverse from the recto side. |
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Cloppenburg was a small administrative district in Lower Saxony with no particular monetary significance — which makes its entry into hyperinflation-era emergency currency entirely unremarkable and entirely typical of 1923 Germany. By the autumn of that year, municipal treasuries across the Reich were issuing their own Notgeld simply to meet payroll, as Reichsbank notes arrived already devalued before they could be distributed. The Stadtkasse, the town's own cash office rather than a private bank, was the issuing authority here — a sign of just how far down the administrative hierarchy the currency crisis had reached.
Twenty billion marks. A figure that would have been arithmetically inconceivable to the same municipal officials just four years earlier.