Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
5 000 000 000 Mark Altonaisches Unterstützungs-Institut
| Issuer | Altonaisches Unterstützungs-Institut |
|---|---|
| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Paper |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Gutschein des Altonaischen Unterstützungs-Instituts über Fünf Milliarden Mark Dieser Gutschein wird an unseren Kassen in Zahlung genommen oder im Überweisungsverkehr vergütet. Der Gutschein verliert am 30. November 1923 seine Gültigkeit. Altona, den 10. Oktober 1923 Altonaisches Unterstützungs-Institut Sparkasse Errichtet 1799 H.W. Köbner & Co. G.m.b.H. Altona |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting the plain cream paper stock with visible fold lines and natural age toning. A faint show-through of the obverse denomination text 'Fünf Milliarden Mark' appears in mirror image, together with the ghost impression of one of the circular institutional seals. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Altonaisches Unterstützungs-Institut was a mutual aid institution in Altona — then still an independent city under Prussian administration, not yet absorbed into Hamburg — rather than a conventional bank or municipal treasury. Its decision to issue emergency currency at the five-billion-mark level places this squarely in the hyperinflationary peak of late 1923, when denominations that would have seemed fictional eighteen months earlier were routine.
H.W. Köbner & Co. in Altona were a local commercial printer, not a specialist banknote firm. That shows.