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5 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Brunndöbra (Municipality of Brunndöbra, Saxony) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld voucher (Gutschein) on white paper with a pale red underprint of the municipal coat of arms of Brunndöbra at centre. The denomination 'Fünf Milliarden Mark' is set in bold blackletter type across the upper half, with the numeral '5 Milliarden' in large vertical letterpress along the right margin. A circular official ink stamp of Gemeinde Brunndöbra and a manuscript signature of the Gemeinde-Vorstand appear in the lower centre, alongside the issue date 'Brunndöbra, den 27. Oktober 1923' at lower left. Series designation 'Serie B' and a handwritten serial number appear at upper left and right respectively, with the approval line 'Genehmigt vom Reichsfinanzministerium' in small type below the title. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein. Serie B Genehmigt vom Reichsfinanzministerium. Nr. Fünf Milliarden Mark 5 Milliarden zahlen die Gemeindekassen in Brunndöbra gegen Rückgabe dieses Scheines innerhalb der bekanntgegebenen Laufzeit. Der Gemeinderat. Gemeinde-Vorstand. Brunndöbra, den 27. Oktober 1923. Gültig bis zum Aufrufe im amtlichen Bekanntmachungsblatte. Wer Gutscheine nachmacht oder verfälscht oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte oder in Deckung bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter zwei Jahren bestraft. |
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Brunndöbra is a small village in the Vogtland district of Saxony, and its appearance as a note-issuing authority in 1923 reflects just how completely the German hyperinflationary crisis had atomized monetary supply. By late 1923, the Reichsbank could not print fast enough, and thousands of local municipalities, businesses, and institutions issued their own emergency currency — Notgeld — to meet basic payroll and commerce needs. A five-billion-mark denomination from a village government is not remarkable by the standards of that autumn; it is, rather, a precise measure of how far the collapse had gone.
The "b" variant designation in the DeNG reference typically indicates a paper stock or overprint difference from the "a" issue. Worth confirming on examination.