Reichsbanknote 1000

Yes, here is the picture:

This one was definitely not issued to be sold to collectors only. The Notgeld for collectors was the Serienscheine which were issued and sold after the final date of validity. This procedure was in fact done to bring the coin money to the citiesadministration and get papermoney in return due to empty pockets of the cities after the war. Every other Notgeld really circulated and you were able to buy something with it. The shown banknote is the highest nominal ever found in Germany and the banknote is very very rare. I`m not sure about the total amount of issued notes (the shown) but be aware there are not much of them.

Due to my poor English let me explain it in different words. Most of the Serienscheine were printed with a date let`s say 12th of July 1921 and were sold the first time on July 25th 1921. It was not possible to buy anything with Serienscheine (except some rare Bausteine which are wrong in that catalogue). Regarding the article about Duderstadt I can only say: Absolutely wrong. It is said in the article that "the 5 Billion Mark was the highest nominal ever printed in Germany". That is false. I show you some evidences from my collection:




and finally this one from a former auction:

Nah, your English looks fine to me (allerdings spreche auch ich besser deutsch als englisch ;) ). I was aware of those Serienscheine not actually being used but mostly made for collectors - what I did not know is that in such cases the actual issue date was after the printed date. Interesting ...

And yes, I wondered about that comment in the article from Duderstadt.de too ... But admittedly I do not collect paper money but that does not mean I'm not interested.

Christian