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5 000 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Buer i.W. (City of Buer in Westphalia) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 7/8#659g |
| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue on cream paper, the note carries the title inscription GUTSCHEIN DER STADT BUER I.W. at the top within a light guilloche border frame. The denomination FÜNF BILLIONEN is set in large bold letterpress type at centre, flanked to the left by a small municipal coat of arms vignette. The main text body states the issuing authority and payment obligation, dated BUER I.W., DEN 23. OKTOBER 1923, with two manuscript signatures below the legend DER MAGISTRAT. The numeral 5000 with the inscription MILLIARDEN MARK appears vertically in the right-hand panel. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER STADT BUER I. W. FÜNF BILLIONEN MARK ZAHLT DIE STADT-KASSE DER STADT BUER DEM EINLIEFERER DIESES GUTSCHEINES BUER I. W., DEN 23. OKTOBER 1923. DER MAGISTRAT: 5000 MILLIARDEN MARK DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT EINEN MONAT NACH AUFRUF IN DEN TAGESZEITUNGEN. |
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Buer in Westphalia was one of hundreds of German municipalities forced to print its own emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank's supply of official notes simply could not keep pace with denominations that were doubling within days. This five trillion Mark note — issued when that sum was roughly equivalent to a loaf of bread — came near the terminal phase of the inflation, after the government had already lost practical control of the money supply to regional and municipal issuers.
The DeNG reference places this within a documented Buer series, but municipal Notgeld at these denominations was typically printed on short notice with minimal security features, and overprinting errors or typographical inconsistencies across the run are not uncommon.