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20 000 000 000 Mark Thüringische Staatsbank
| Issuer | Thüringische Staatsbank |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Zwanzig Milliarden Mark zahlt die Kasse der Thüringischen Staatsbank dem Einlieferer dieses Notgeldscheines. Vom 1. Oktober 1923 ab kann dieses Notgeld aufgerufen und gegen Umtausch in Reichsbanknoten eingezogen werden. Weimar, 9. August 1923. Die Landesregierung |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on cream paper with the same central vertical green guilloche underprint of repeating scroll and rosette motifs as found on the obverse. The denomination 'ZWANZIG MILLIARDEN MARK' is set in bold Roman capitals across the upper portion, flanked above and below by a small ornamental scroll device. A serial number is printed in black in the centre of the guilloche band. 'SERIE A' appears twice at lower left and lower right, above the inscription 'NOTGELD DES LANDES THÜRINGEN'. Anti-counterfeiting warning text in small italic type runs vertically along both left and right margins. |
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The Thüringische Staatsbank was one of dozens of German regional and municipal authorities that issued emergency high-denomination paper during the hyperinflation peak of autumn 1923, when the Reichsbank's own supply could not keep pace with the collapsing purchasing power of the mark. By September and October of that year, denominations in the billions and trillions were routine — a 20 Milliarden (20,000,000,000) Mark note was not extraordinary in its face value, only in what that value represented: the near-total destruction of a currency within a single calendar year.
Thüringen's state issues from this period were printed under severe time pressure, and quality control was a secondary concern.