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5 000 000 000 Mark Tiengen
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Tiengen |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünf Milliarden zahlt die Stadtkasse Tiengen gegen diese Note dem Einlieferer. Tiengen, den 26. Oktober 1923. Der Bürgermeister: 5 Milliarden Mk. STADT TIENGEN J. Fr. Greiner, Tiengen. |
| Reverse description | Unprinted plain cream paper reverse, showing faint bleed-through of the obverse letterpress impression. No design elements, text, or security features are present on this side. |
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Tiengen's Stadtkasse issued this five-billion Mark note during the hyperinflation peak of late 1923, when municipal and commercial bodies across Germany were printing emergency currency — Notgeld — simply to keep wages moving. At the height of the crisis, the Reichsbank could not produce denominations fast enough, so local authorities filled the gap with their own paper, often printed by whatever press was available in town. J. Fr. Greiner was exactly that: a local job printer pressed into monetary service.
Five billion Marks. Within weeks of issue, that figure was already obsolete.