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5 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Cities of Eschweiler and Stolberg |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 145 × 90 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a central vignette of a draped classical female figure standing within a large decorative cartouche flanked by scrollwork ornaments, with the denomination "Fünf Milliarden" rendered in bold Gothic blackletter script above. The circular municipal seals of Eschweiler and Stolberg are impressed to the left and right of the central vignette respectively, with dual mayoral signature lines and date "14. Oktbr. 1923" set beneath. A vertical left-side panel, printed in red, carries the validity inscription and series/serial number designation, with the serial number printed in red to the right margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Umlauffähig im ganzen Regierungs bezirk Aachen. Gültig bis zum 1. April 1924 Reihe A - N° < SN > Gutschein über Mark Fünf Milliarden Eschweiler Stolberg den 14. Oktbr 1923 den 14. Oktbr. 1923 Der Bürgermeister Der Bürgermeister Dieser Gutschein wird von den städtischen Kassen in Eschweiler und Stolberg sowie von den Banken des Eschweiler+Stolberger Industriegebiets in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültig- keit vier Wochen nach Aufruf durch die öffentlichen Blätter. |
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Eschweiler and Stolberg were neighboring Rhineland industrial towns — coal mining in Eschweiler, copper and zinc smelting in Stolberg — and they issued this note jointly during the autumn 1923 hyperinflation peak, when municipal and commercial authorities across Germany scrambled to print emergency currency fast enough to meet weekly, sometimes daily, wage demands. A five-billion-mark denomination would have been unremarkable by October 1923; the Reichsmark that replaced the old mark in November came at a conversion rate of one trillion to one.
Joint municipal issues of this kind are catalogued under Notgeld but functioned as genuine wage-payment instruments, not collector souvenirs. The Merkelbach reference places this firmly in the documented series.