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5 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Feuerbach (City Municipality of Feuerbach, Württemberg) |
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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 | Uniface letterpress note printed in deep rose-pink on plain white paper, with a dense repetitive leaf-scroll underprint forming the background. Fraktur blackletter text dominates the face, with the large denomination '5 Milliarden Mark' at centre and the city arms vignette below; series letter and serial number appear at lower right and centre respectively. Two manuscript signatures of the Oberbürgermeister and Stadtpfleger are affixed at bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Feuerbach Stadt-Kassenschein 5 Milliarden Mark zahlt die Stadt Feuerbach dem Einlieferer dieses Kassenscheins. Feuerbach, den 26. Oktober 1923. Oberbürgermeister : Stadtpfleger : (Translation: City Municipality Feuerbach City Cash Note The city of Feuerbach pays 5 billion marks to the bearer of this cash note. Feuerbach, October 26, 1923. Mayor: City Treasurer:) |
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Feuerbach was an independent industrial municipality on the northwestern edge of Stuttgart — it would not be absorbed into the city until 1933. Like hundreds of German municipalities during the hyperinflation peak of late 1923, Feuerbach issued its own emergency currency, Notgeld, when Reichsbank notes became inadequate almost as soon as they were printed. A five-billion-mark denomination tells you exactly where this sits in the timeline: the catastrophic autumn of 1923, when the exchange rate against the dollar was collapsing by the hour.
Municipal issues at this level were typically printed locally on whatever stock was available, often by small commercial printers with no banknote experience.