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25 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss Bielefeld (Landkreis Bielefeld) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Green and brown offset-printed Notgeld note with a black upper band bearing the denomination '25 Milliarden Mark' in Gothic script. The central vignette presents two figures in traditional Westphalian folk costume in profile, framed by an arch of stylised wheat sheaves; a sower with a farmstead appears at left and a traveller with a staff at right. Redemption and validity conditions are printed in Gothic typeface at lower left, with the date and committee signatures at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse in cream-white paper with a faint blue-green underprint ghost showing through from the obverse vignette. A thin ruled rectangular border frames the field; no text or additional design elements are present. |
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Bielefeld's district authority — the Landkreis, distinct from the city itself — issued this 25-billion-mark note at the absolute apex of Weimar hyperinflation, when the Reichsbank's supply lines for emergency currency had completely broken down and local administrations across Germany were printing their own Notgeld simply to make payroll. By late 1923, a note of this denomination would have bought roughly a loaf of bread, perhaps less depending on the week.
G. Thomas was a local Bielefeld printer, not a specialist banknote firm. That matters: quality control was inconsistent across the district's emergency issues, and the DeNG 7/8 reference cluster for Bielefeld Landkreis documents several closely related issues that collectors frequently conflate.