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5 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Düren (City of Düren) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Dieser Gutschein der Stadt Düren über Fünf Milliarden 5 000 000 000 Mark ist durch Hinterlegung von Reichsschatzanweisungen gedeckt. Er wird von den kommunalen Kassen- und Sparkassen, sowie den Banken des Kreises Düren in Zahlung genommen. Der Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit mit Ablauf einer Woche nach Aufruf in den Dürener Zeitungen. Die Stadtgemeinde Düren haftet für die Einlösung. Düren, den 15. Oktober 1923 Der Oberbürgermeister Umlaufsfähig in den Regierungsbezirken Aachen und Köln Gültig bis 1. April 1924 Stadt Düren 5 000 000 000 Mark |
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| Signature(s) | Oberbürgermeister (facsimile, name illegible) |
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Stadt Düren was one of hundreds of German municipalities forced into emergency currency issuance during the hyperinflation peak of late 1923, when the Reichsbank could not produce notes fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. A five-billion-mark denomination — unthinkable even twelve months earlier — was by autumn 1923 worth roughly a loaf of bread, if that.
Printed locally by J.W. Loesch & Orthaus, this note avoided the delays plaguing municipalities that had outsourced production to overwhelmed printers in Berlin or Leipzig. The watermarked paper suggests at least some security consideration at a moment when counterfeit Notgeld was a genuine administrative headache for issuing towns.
The facsimile signature of the Oberbürgermeister, rendered illegibly enough to frustrate later cataloguers entirely, is catalogued under three Merkelbacher variants (39–41), likely reflecting different print runs or minor typographic changes.