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10 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkreis und Landkreis Coblenz |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Uniface Notgeld issue printed in dark red on cream paper, enclosed within a decorative floral and geometric border. The denomination 'Zehn Millionen Mark' is rendered in large Fraktur blackletter script at centre, with the heading 'Kassenschein des Stadtkreises und des Landkreises Coblenz' above in roman capitals. The lower portion carries redemption text, the issue date of 20 August 1923, and two signature lines for the Oberbürgermeister of Stadtkreis Coblenz and the Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses of Landkreis Coblenz, flanking a serial number; the denomination '10 Millionen' is repeated vertically along the left margin in Fraktur script. |
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| Obverse lettering | KASSENSCHEIN DES STADTKREISES UND DES LANDKREISES COBLENZ Zehn Millionen Mark Dieser Kassenschein kann vom 1.9.1923 ab aufgerufen und unter Umtausch bei der Stadtkasse und der Kreisgemeindekasse eingelöst werden. COBLENZ, den 20. August 1923. STADTKREIS COBLENZ Der Oberbürgermeister: LANDKREIS COBLENZ Der Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses: 10 Millionen |
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Coblenz — under French military occupation since 1919 under the terms of the Versailles Treaty — issued its own emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank's supply of sufficiently denominated notes consistently failed to meet local demand. Municipal and district authorities across occupied and unoccupied Germany were effectively printing their own money out of administrative necessity, not legal ambition.
The ten-million mark face value dates this note precisely: August–September 1923, when denominations climbed from thousands to billions within weeks. Notes issued this late in the spiral often circulated for only days before becoming economically irrelevant.