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500 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Burg bei Magdeburg |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 500 000 000 Marks (500 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld on plain paper with a pink/violet guilloche underprint centred on the Burg municipal coat of arms. The denomination 'Fünfhundert Millionen Mark' is set in bold Fraktur type across the middle register, flanked by a circular black seal of the Magistrat der Stadt Burg to the left and a red oval stamp of the Kreisausschuss des Kreises Jerichow I bearing a German eagle to the right. The issuing authority 'Der Magistrat', date 'Burg, den 12. Oktober 1923', a manuscript signature, and the printer's imprint 'A. Hopfer, Burg b. M.' occupy the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark brown/black on cream paper, the reverse is dominated by a large central oval guilloche rosette in reddish-brown tones enclosing the bold numeral '500' above the Fraktur legend 'Millionen Mark'. The design is entirely typographic, relying on the guilloche pattern for decorative structure with no pictorial vignette; faint show-through of the obverse applied stamps and text is visible. |
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Burg bei Magdeburg was one of hundreds of German municipalities forced into emergency currency production during the hyperinflation peak of late 1923, when the Reichsbank's output could not keep pace with denominations spiraling week by week. A local printer covering a local crisis — A. Hopfer was not a specialist currency house, which is exactly the point. These notes were functional objects, printed fast and spent faster, often within days of issue before their face value became meaningless again.
The 500,000,000 Mark denomination places this firmly in the autumn 1923 collapse, when nine-digit figures had become routine grocery-run arithmetic.