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10 000 000 000 Mark Konsum-Verein Wohlfahrt
| Issuer | Rh.-Westf. Konsum-Verein 'Wohlfahrt' e.G.m.b.H., Essen-Altenessen |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 135 × 92 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on a salmon-pink crosshatch guilloche underprint, the note is divided into a plain white left margin panel bearing the bold blackletter monogram 'KV', the numeral '10', the legend 'Milliarden Mark', and the series designation 'WA' arranged vertically. The main field to the right is enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border and carries the denomination 'Zehn Milliarden' in large blackletter script above a five-line redemption text in cursive script, with the issuer's name, place, and date 'Essen-Altenessen, am 25. Aug. 1923' set out in two columns at foot. A serial number prefixed 'No' and an asterisk appear at lower left, accompanied by two manuscript signatures at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Zehn Milliarden Mark Zentralanlage Nur gültig für Angestellte in der Genossenschaft (Translation: Ten billion marks Central facility Only valid for employees of the cooperative) |
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Essen-Altenessen's cooperative consumer society — "Wohlfahrt" translates as welfare or wellbeing — issued this note at the absolute peak of Weimar hyperinflation, when ten billion marks was a denomination worth printing on a single small slip of paper. Cooperative societies across the Rhineland and Westphalia were among the most active notgeld issuers during the autumn 1923 collapse, partly because their membership structures gave them a ready, semi-captive circulation network.
The Rh.-Westf. Konsum-Verein series is rarely documented in mainstream notgeld catalogs, which makes condition and print variant attribution genuinely difficult.