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5 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisamt Bingen (District Office of Bingen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld note printed in blue on plain paper with an overall heart-pattern guilloche underprint. A left-marginal panel, rotated 90 degrees, states the area of validity and expiry date. At lower left, a small heraldic shield vignette of the Kreis Bingen arms. The denomination "Fünf Milliarden Mark" is set in bold large letterpress type at centre, with series letter, serial number, and issuing authority inscriptions arranged above and below. |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie C No [serial number] 5 Milliarden Mark Gutschein des Kreises Bingen über Fünf Milliarden Mark Wird bei der Kreiskasse in Zahlung genommen und nach dem 1. April 1924 zur Rückzahlung aufgerufen. Nachahmung wird strafrechtlich verfolgt. Kreisamt Bingen. Bingen am Rhein, den 20. Oktober 1923. Umlauffähig im ganzen besetzten hessischen Gebiet. :: Gültig bis 1. April 1924. |
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Bingen's five-billion-mark note is a product of Germany's hyperinflationary peak in late 1923, when district and municipal authorities were legally permitted — and practically compelled — to issue their own emergency currency, known as Notgeld, because the Reichsbank simply could not print and distribute denominations fast enough to keep pace with the collapsing mark. The Kreisamt Bingen turned to a local commercial printer, A. d. Hemerling Nachf. G.m.b.H., which had no specialized security printing background — a fact that made counterfeiting almost beside the point when the note's face value was itself worthless within days of issue.