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5 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtverwaltung Bad Lippspringe (City Administration of Bad Lippspringe) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünf Milliarden Mark zahlt die Stadtkasse Bad Lippspringe bis zum 1.Dezember 1923 dem Einlieferer gegen Abgabe dieses Gutscheines. Bad Lippspringe, den 29.Oktober 1923 Die Stadtverwaltung Der Bürgermeister: (Translation: Five billion marks will be paid by the Bad Lippspringe city treasury to the depositor upon presentation of this voucher by December 1, 1923. Bad Lippspringe, October 29, 1923 The city administration The Mayor:) |
| Reverse description | Plain reverse showing a complete bleed-through impression of the obverse text and ornamental border in mirror image, rendered in pale violet on unprinted white paper stock. The municipal seal and signature are visible in reverse as a result of the single-sided letterpress printing method typical of hyperinflation-era Notgeld issues. |
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German municipal administrations were authorized to issue their own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the hyperinflation of 1923, and by the time denominations reached the billions of marks, the notes were being printed, issued, and rendered worthless within days. Bad Lippspringe, a small spa town in Westphalia, relied on the local printer H. Vahle to produce this 5,000,000,000 Mark piece rather than contracting with any of the large commercial press houses.
The Reichsbank's withdrawal of the old mark was completed by late 1923, making most Notgeld of this denomination redeemable for a fraction of a Rentenmark pfennig — effectively nothing.