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5 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Hamborn (City of Hamborn) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 5 000 000 000 Marks (5 000 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Grey guilloche border frames the note with diamond lattice underprint. The denomination numeral "5" and the word "MILLIARDEN MARK" are printed in large red letterpress at centre, flanked by vertical side panels bearing repeated denomination text. Below, the legal tender clause and issuing date appear in red script, with the circular Stadt Hamborn municipal seal and the Oberbürgermeister's manuscript signature at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in grey, the reverse centres on a large circular medallion carrying the legend "NOTGELD DER STADT HAMBORN" around its circumference and "FÜNF MILLIARDEN MARK" within, set over a lozenge-pattern guilloche underprint. Two industrial vignettes — gear-and-crossed-hammer devices — flank the medallion at left and right. Ribbon banners at top and bottom repeat the denomination "MILLIARDEN 5 MILLIARDEN". The red serial number is typeset vertically at the left margin. |
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Hamborn was an industrial city in the Ruhr, and by the time this note was issued in 1923 it was already weeks away from ceasing to exist as an independent municipality — it was absorbed into Duisburg in October 1929, but during the hyperinflation peak it was issuing its own Notgeld like dozens of other German cities scrambling to keep commerce functional as Reichsbank notes became worthless faster than they could be printed. A five-billion-mark denomination from a mid-sized industrial city is a precise snapshot of how completely the currency had collapsed.
Local Notgeld of this magnitude was typically printed on whatever stock was available, sometimes on single-sided sheets with minimal security features.