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10 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisgemeinde Pfalz (District Community of the Palatinate) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 MILLIONEN MARK NOTGELDSCHEIN DER KREISGEMEINDE PFALZ Gültig nur im Regierungsbezirk Pfalz ZEHN MILLIONEN MARK 10 000 000 MARK Für diesen Notgeldschein haftet das gesamte Vermögen der Kreisgemeinde. Derselbe wird von sämtlichen Kassen der Reichsbank in Zahlung genommen. Dieser Notgeldschein wird ungültig, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung bei den veröffentlichten Einzugsstellen eingereicht wird. Speyer, den 11. August 1923 KREISGEMEINDE PFALZ |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue on cream paper, the reverse centres on a large oval vignette with a finely engraved panoramic view of Speyer Cathedral (the Kaiserdom) and the surrounding townscape, rendered with radiating line work that gives a luminous, sunburst effect behind the skyline. The oval is framed by a hatched border, with four ribbon banners at the corners repeating the denomination '10 MILLIONEN MARK', mirroring the obverse corner design. No additional text appears beyond the corner denominations. |
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The Kreisgemeinde Pfalz was one of hundreds of regional German authorities forced into emergency currency production during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank's output simply could not keep pace with demand for ever-larger denominations. By the time ten-million-mark notes were being issued at the district level, the figure already represented little more than a day's wages — the denomination was obsolete almost from the moment of printing.
Hart & Wein were a minor regional printer; their work on Notgeld of this period is competent but lacks the engraved quality of notes produced by Giesecke & Devrient or the Reichsdruckerei.