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5 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt- und Landkreis Gelsenkirchen |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld für den Stadt- u. Landkreis Gelsenkirchen Fünf Milliarden Mark Ausgegeben mit Genehmigung des Reichsfinanzministers von dem Stadt- und Landkreise Gelsenkirchen Dieser Schein wird bei allen Kassen der ausgebenden Behörden eingelöst. Er wird ungültig mit Ablauf der durch amtlichen Aufruf zu bestimmenden Frist. Gelsenkirchen, den 10. Oktober 1923. Namens der Stadt Gelsenkirchen: Der Oberbürgermeister Namens des Landkreises Gelsenkirchen: Der Kreisausschuß Kreisdeputierter Reihe B |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain cream-buff paper surface; faint ghosting of the obverse text is visible by transparency through the thin paper stock, with no design elements, vignettes, or lettering applied to this side. |
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Gelsenkirchen's municipal authority issued this note at the absolute peak of Weimar hyperinflation — by late 1923, local governments across Germany were printing their own emergency currency (Notgeld) because the Reichsbank simply could not supply denominations large enough for daily transactions fast enough. A loaf of bread was running into the billions. The Stadt- und Landkreis series was a functional necessity, not a collector's exercise.
Municipal printing at this scale was improvised and fast. Expect variation in ink saturation and registration across examples from the same run.