German Inflation Stamps

Hi there guys this will be my first post ; )
I have a question regarding the german inflations stamps.
My question is as follows. What denomination is the highest of your german inflation stamps that have been cancelled. I know they issued a 20 milliarden stamp. Shouldnt it be rarer the higher the denomination is on the stamp.

By the way im glad to have found this place on the web.
I will try to install an old scanner tomorrow so that my future post will have I picture to the topic.

best regards mrmagic

Welcome to the forum.

The German inflationary period is an area that I find quite interesting. It amazes me that they could go from less than a Mark for postage, to 20 Billion Marks (Millarden is Billion in the American way of Million, Billion).

I have one of those suckers (Scott # 308) with a lovely cancellation on it. Scott's only has a value of around 11 bucks for a used one of them. Now the 50 Billion one, is a different matter. Scott's has a 575 dollar value one a postaly used one of those ones. So they are much fewer and further between.

Forgot to mention... Until you hit the really big ones, there isn't as good a correlation between surcharged value and used catalog price as you might expect.

thanks for your quick reply guys.
yes it sure is and interesting period, I recently saw a documentary that touched this period in time in germany.
In the documentary they said that when the inflation was worst,
the employees got their salary 3 times a day. first one was in the morning, and that was handed over to some family member that bought lunch for it. because if they waited until lunchtime they could not afford the lunch.
second salary was given at lunchtime so that they could afford to buy supper. and the final salary was given at the end of the day when the exchange/stockmarket was closed. It was used for buying the coming days breakfast etc.
it finally did collapse because no on could keep up with the actual counting of the rates etc.
Foreign currencies was preferred by shop owners.

best regards mrmagic

Just for reference's sake, here is an image of a 20 Milliarden stamp. As soon as I find my copy of the 50 Mdn stamp I will add it to this post.

Germany 20 Milliarden

According to my cheat sheet's I have the 20 and the 50 both used as singles. I also have the 50 on cover and the 20 on piece. But I'll be darned if I can think of what book, box or file that cover is in.

Here is my highest value used inflation (50 Milliarden) with a cancellation date of 11-12-23 and a scan of the certification mark on the back of the stamp.

Hello, Here is a 1 billion mark statistical tax? revenue stamp. The front reads Statitische Gebuhr, which I think means Statistical tax. Thank you
David

Bayern1kreuzer, Very good link and information and I certainly appreciate it.
David

This seems like the best place to drop in a used inflation-era stamp, in this case with a Stettin cancel.

As I understand it, Stettin (Chechin(?) in Polish) changed hands so many times, the store proprietors had their store names in German on one side and polish on the other. I thought I had relatives from there at one time, but my genealogical research didn't turn up any. If you go up the Oder River and turn left, you will run into the island of Ruegen (ue for the umlauts,) you will find that the name 'Strohmeier' is, or at least was, as common as sand on the beach.

As to the inflation, here's a partial printout from my excel files for German regular postage issues for 1923. I've abbreviated a number of fields/attributes for readability on this forum. I had it nicely formatted, but the spaces got squeezed out. Anyone know how to control the spacing, short of HTML customizing (i.e., insert a table?)

Mr. Magic; welcome to the forum.
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Scott # Illust. #Year Issue Cond Comments Color Value

238A A38 1923 Numeral New grnsh blue 5,000
239 A38 1923 Numeral New bister 50,000
240 A38 1923 Numeral New dark violet 75,000
241 A26 1923 Numeral New 8 th mk on 30pf green 8,000
242 A26 1923 Numeral New 5 th mk on 40pf orange 5,000
243 A29 1923 Farmers New 15 th mk on 40pf green 15,000
244 A29 1923 Farmers New 20 th mk on 12pf red 20,000
245 A29 1923 Farmers New 20 th mk on 25pf brown 20,000
246 A35 1923 Numeral New 20 th mk on 200pf red 20,000
247 A29 1923 Farmers New 25 th mk on 25pf brown 25,000
248 A29 1923 Farmers New 30 th mk on 10m blue 30,000
249 A35 1923 Numeral New 30 th mk on 200mk blue 30,000
250 A35 1923 Numeral New 75 th mk on 300mk green 75,000
251 A35 1923 Numeral New 75 th mk on 400mk green 75,000
252 A35 1923 Numeral New 75 th mk on 1000mk yellow 75,000
253 A35 1923 Numeral New 100 th mk on 100mk purple 75,000
254 A35 1923 Numeral New 100 th mk on 400mk blushgrn 100,000
255 A35 1923 Numeral New 125 th mk on 1000mk salmon 125,000
256 A35 1923 Numeral New 250 th mk on 200mk red 250,000
257 A35 1923 Numeral New 250 th mk on 300mk green 250,000
258 A35 1923 Numeral New 250 th mk on 400mk purple 250,000
259 A35 1923 Numeral New 250 th mk on 500mk pink 250,000
260 A35 1923 Numeral New 250 th mk on 500mk red org 250,000
261 A26 1923 Numeral New 800 th mk on 5pf lt green 800,000
262 A26 1923 Numeral New 800 th mk on 10pf lt green 800,000
263 A35 1923 Numeral New 800 th mk on 200mk red 800,000
264 A35 1923 Numeral New 800 th mk on 300mk lt green 800,000
265 A35 1923 Numeral New 800 th mk on 400mk dk brown 800,000
266 A35 1923 Numeral New 800 th mk on 400mk lt green 800,000
267 A35 1923 Numeral New 800 th mk on 500mk lt green 800,000
268 A35 1923 Numeral New 800 th mk on 1000mk lt green 800,000
269 A35 1923 Numeral New 2 mil mk on 200m rose red 2,000,000
270 A35 1923 Numeral New 2 mil mk on 300m green 2,000,000
271 A35 1923 Numeral New 2 mil mk on 500m rose red 2,000,000
272 A35 1923 Numeral New 2 mil mk on 5,000m rose red 2,000,000
273 A26 1923 Numeral New 400th mk on 15pf bis 400,000
274 A26 1923 Numeral New 400th mk on 25pf bis 400,000
275 A26 1923 Numeral New 400th mk on 30pf bis 400,000
276 A26 1923 Numeral New 400th mk on 40pf bis 400,000
278 A38 1923 Numeral New 2 m mk on 5 th m dull rose 2,000,000
280 A39 1923 Numeral New brown 500,000
281 A39 1923 Numeral New grnsh blue 1,000,000
281 A39 1923 Numeral New grnsh blue 1,000,000
282 A39 1923 Numeral New dull violet 2,000,000
284 A39 1923 Numeral New yellow green 4,000,000
284 A39 1923 Numeral Used yellow green 4,000,000
285 A39 1923 Numeral New rose 5,000,000
286 A39 1923 Numeral New red 10,000,000
287 A39 1923 Numeral New ultra 20,000,000
288 A39 1923 Numeral New red brown 30,000,000
289 A39 1923 Numeral New dull ol green 50,000,000
290 A39 1923 Numeral New gray 100,000,000
291 A39 1923 Numeral New bis brn 200,000,000
293 A39 1923 Numeral New ol green 500,000,000
293 A39 1923 Numeral Used ol green 500,000,000
294 A39a 1923 Numeral New 1 mrd choc 1,000,000,000
295 A39a 1923 Numeral New 2 mrd pale brn & grn 2,000,000,000
296 A39a 1923 Numeral New 5 mrd yellow & brown 5,000,000,000
297 A39a 1923 Numeral New 10 mrd ap grn & grn 10,000,000,000
298 A39a 1923 Numeral New 20 mrd bluish grn & brn 20,000,000,000
299 A39a 1923 Numeral New 50 mrd blue & dp blue 50,000,000,000
301 A39 1923 Numeral New red 10,000,000
302 A39 1923 Numeral New ultra 20,000,000
303 A39 1923 Numeral New dull green 50,000,000
304 A39 1923 Numeral New bis brown 200,000,000
305 A39a 1923 Numeral New 1 mrd choc 1,000,000,000
306 A39a 1923 Numeral New 2 mrd pale brn & grn 2,000,000,000
307 A39a 1923 Numeral New 5 mrd yellow & brown 5,000,000,000
308 A39a 1923 Numeral New 20 mrd bluish grn & brn 20,000,000,000
310 A35 1923 Numeral New 1 mil mk on 100 mk violet 1,000,000,000
311 A35 1923 Numeral New 5 mrd on 2 mil mk lt vio 5,000,000,000
312 A35 1923 Numeral New 5 mrd on 4 mil mk red 5,000,000,000
313 A35 1923 Numeral New 5 mrd on 10 mil mk lt green 5,000,000,000
313 A35 1923 Numeral New 10 mrd on 20 mil mk blue 5,000,000
315 A39 1923 Numeral New 10 mrd on 50 mil mk green 10,000,000,000