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1 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Vereinigte Kreise des Reg.-Bez. Trier, die Stadt Trier und die Prov. Birkenfeld |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 1 000 000 000 Mark (1 000 000 000) |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue on cream paper, the reverse presents an elaborate lace-like guilloche panel at centre enclosing the large numeral "1.000.000.000" rendered in pale-on-blue relief within a shaped cartouche. The surrounding border consists of a dense vine-leaf and grape-cluster decorative frame executed in fine-line intaglio style, with a vertical denomination strip "1.000.000.000" repeated along the right margin within a dotted rule border. |
| Reverse lettering | 1.000.000.000 |
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This is German Notgeld — emergency currency issued at the regional level during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank could not print fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. The issuing authority here is an unusual coalition: the united districts of the Regierungsbezirk Trier, the city of Trier itself, and the Province of Birkenfeld — a joint arrangement that reflected both administrative pragmatism and the political awkwardness of the Rhineland's partially occupied status under the post-Versailles settlement.
Schaar & Dathe, the local Trier printer responsible for this note, produced several denominations for this issuing consortium. By the time a billion-mark note was necessary, the denomination itself had ceased to function as a meaningful unit of account.