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10 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Vereinigte Kreise Cochem, Simmern und Zell |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper within a double-rule typographic border, with a pale ochre guilloche underprint incorporating the district names ZELL, COCHEM, and SIMMERN in large latent lettering across the field. The denomination "Zehn Millionen Mark" is set in bold blackletter type at the top, with the numeral "10 Millionen" repeated in large letterpress in the central panel; at left and right, small square vignettes each enclose a classical female portrait bust in an oval surround. The issuing districts Cochem, Simmern, and Zell are named along the lower register with the date "den 10. August 1923," followed by three manuscript signatures and a printed serial number with prefix and suffix letter. |
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| Reverse lettering | Zehn Millionen Mark |
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This is Rhineland notgeld from the hyperinflation peak of 1923, issued jointly by three administrative districts — Cochem, Simmern, and Zell — pooling issuing authority as a practical response to the Reichsbank's inability to supply sufficient currency at usable denominations. By mid-1923, ten million marks was roughly bus-fare money. The combined-district format was common in the Rhineland, where French occupation of the Ruhr had further disrupted normal banking channels and local authorities were left to paper over the gap, literally.
Collector demand for Rhineland inflation notgeld has always been strong; condition varies widely since much of it circulated hard before stabilization rendered it worthless in late November 1923.