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500 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt- und Landkreis Aachen |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed Notgeld in green on plain paper, with a detachable left-hand stub bearing the validity inscription and date range in black. The main body is headed 'Stadt- und Landkreis Aachen' in Gothic script, with the bold denomination 'Gutschein über 500 Milliarden Mark' printed over a light green underprint vignette drawn from a Romanesque imperial composition in the manner of the Aachen Cathedral treasury, evoking enthroned ecclesiastical and regal figures. Two circular official seals and two manuscript signatures of the Oberbürgermeister and the Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses appear in the lower register, with the printer's imprint of Aug. Heinrigs, Aachen at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Umlaufsfähig im ganzen Regierungsbezirk Aachen Gültig bis zum 1. April 1924 Stadt und Landkreis Aachen Gutschein über 500 Milliarden Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von allen öffentlichen Kassen des Stadt- und Landkreises Aachen in Zahlung genommen Aachen, den 12. Oktober 1923 Der Oberbürgermeister: Der Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses: |
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Aachen's municipal administration — covering both the city and its surrounding district as a combined Stadt- und Landkreis — issued this 500 billion Mark note at the absolute peak of Weimar hyperinflation in late 1923, weeks before the Rentenmark stabilization finally arrested the collapse. At this denomination, the note's purchasing power was already eroding by the hour; prices in Germany were doubling roughly every few days by November of that year.
Aug. Heinrigs was a local Aachen printing firm pressed into emergency notgeld production alongside hundreds of other regional printers across Germany. The Merkelbach catalogue reference 110 places it firmly within the documented Aachen emergency issues of the period.