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50 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Giengen a. Brenz (City Treasury of Giengen an der Brenz) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | J.Nr. 6296 Stadt Giengen a. Brenz 50,000,000,000 Fünfzig Milliarden Mark zahlt die Stadtkasse Giengen a. Brenz dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines. Gültig bis 31. März 1924. Verlängerung oder früherer Aufruf zur Einlösung vorbehalten. Giengen a. Brenz, den 25. Oktober 1923. Stadtschultheiss: Stadtpfleger: 50 50 G. Schmid, Buchdr., Giengen a. Br. |
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| Reverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Giengen a. Brenz. Fünfzig Milliarden Mark Nachahmung oder Fälschung strafbar. |
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Giengen an der Brenz is a small Swabian town best known — if known at all — as the birthplace of the Steiff teddy bear. In the autumn of 1923, its municipal treasury was doing what hundreds of German Stadtkassen were doing: printing emergency Notgeld in denominations that would have been unimaginable eighteen months earlier. Fifty billion marks from a local printer serving a town of a few thousand people is the hyperinflation made tactile.
G. Schmid was a local commercial print shop, not a security printer. These notes were not engraved — they were typeset and run off on whatever press was available, which is why condition varies so sharply within the series.