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10 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisamt Bingen (District Office of Bingen, Hesse) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper Notgeld issued by the Kreisamt Bingen, dated 23. Oktober 1923, with a large underprint numeral '10' in grey at centre. The denomination 'Zehn Milliarden Mark' is set in bold decorative letterpress script at centre, above a small heraldic shield vignette at lower left showing an armoured knight on horseback. A vertical ruled panel at left carries the validity and territorial text, while a delicate floral guilloche underprint runs along the right margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie A Nr. Zehn Milliarden Gutschein des Kreises Bingen über Zehn Milliarden Mark Wird bei der Kreiskasse in Zahlung genommen und nach dem 1. April 1924 zur Rückzahlung aufgerufen. Nachahmung wird strafrechtlich verfolgt. Bingen am Rhein, 23. Oktober 1923. Kreisamt Bingen. Umlaufähig im ganzen hessischen Gebiet. Gültig bis 1. April 1924. Vincenz Pekarek, Bingen. |
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Kreisamt Bingen was one of hundreds of regional German administrative bodies forced into emergency currency production during the hyperinflation peak of autumn 1923, when the Reichsbank could not supply denominations fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. A ten-billion-mark note — printed by a local commercial printer, Vincenz Pekarek, working almost certainly on whatever paper stock was available — was an entirely ordinary transaction instrument by the time October arrived. Workers were being paid daily, sometimes twice daily, to outrun the afternoon exchange rate.
Pekarek's output for Bingen was purely functional. The signature of "Schön" as the authorizing Kreisamt official gave the notes their legal standing within the district.