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10 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Regierungsbezirk Trier und Provinz Birkenfeld |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 10 000 000 000 Mark (10 000 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Brown and teal Notgeld note with an elaborate oak-leaf guilloche border enclosing a central teal underprint of the numeral '10'. The denomination 'Zehn Milliarden Mark' is set in bold blackletter script across the upper central field, beneath which six lines of Gothic-type text state the legal tender conditions and liability of the issuing municipal associations. Dated 'TRIER, den 10. Oktober 1923', the note carries a serial number at lower left and three manuscript signatures under the heading 'Der Ausschuss'; the denomination '10.000.000.000' is printed vertically in large numerals along the right margin, with a left-side panel bearing the validity and circulation legend in upright text. |
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| Obverse lettering | Zehn Milliarden Mark Dieser Schein wird von sämtlichen öffentlichen Kassen des Reg.-Bez. Trier und der Provinz Birkenfeld eingelöst. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in den Amtsblättern des Reg.-Bez. Trier und der Provinz Birkenfeld. Die unterzeichneten Kommunalverbände haften für die Einlösung. Die vereinigten Kreise des Reg.-Bez. Trier, die Stadt Trier und die Prov. Birkenfeld. TRIER, den 10. Oktober 1923. Der Ausschuss: Umlauffähig im ganzen Reg.-Bez. Trier und in der Provinz Birkenfeld – Gültig bis zum 1. April 1924 – SCHAAR & DATHE, A.-G., TRIER 10.000.000.000 |
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Regierungsbezirk Trier and the small Prussian enclave of Provinz Birkenfeld issued this note jointly during the hyperinflation peak of autumn 1923, when regional and municipal authorities across Germany were legally empowered to produce their own Notgeld to fill a void the Reichsbank could no longer bridge. By October of that year, ten billion marks would not have purchased a loaf of bread in most German cities.
Schaar & Dathe, a Trier printing firm, handled much of the emergency currency production for the southwestern Rhineland region. The Trier-Birkenfeld pairing was administratively convenient but geographically awkward — Birkenfeld was a non-contiguous Prussian territory surrounded by non-Prussian land.