Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
5 000 000 000 000 Mark Langenberg im Rheinland
| Issuer | Stadt Langenberg (Rheinland) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | The central field carries the denomination and issuing authority text in bold Gothic letterpress type, with the full text of the bearer clause set in smaller letterpress below. A vignette of the Langenberg Rathaus (town hall) occupies the right portion of the note within a decorative frame, while a geometric guilloche underprint of interlocking diamond patterns covers the background. The signature of the acting Bürgermeister appears in the lower field alongside the issue date of 10 November 1923. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | 5 Billionen Mk. / Stadt Langenberg (Rheinland) / zahlt die Stadtskasse oder Sparkasse / an den Ueberbringer dieser / Langenberg, den 10. November 1923 / Der komm. Bürgermeister |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Langenberg im Rheinland was a small industrial town in the Bergisches Land, and like hundreds of German municipalities in late 1923, it was forced to issue its own emergency currency as the Reichsbank's hyperinflationary spiral made official notes obsolete almost the moment they were printed. Five trillion marks — 5,000,000,000,000 — is the denomination here, and that figure alone locates this note precisely: October or November 1923, the terminal weeks of the inflation before the Rentenmark stabilization of November 15th.
Municipal Notgeld at these denominations was typically lithographed locally on whatever paper stock was available, often on a single press run. Overprinting earlier, lower-denomination plates was common practice at this stage.