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10 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Trier (City Treasury of Trier) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 10 000 000 Mark (10 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by the denomination 'Zehn Millionen Mark' rendered in bold Gothic blackletter calligraphy across the upper left, with the numeral '10 000 000' printed in large red letterpress below. To the right, a circular red seal of the city of Trier bears a Romanesque enthroned figure flanked by smaller figures, surrounded by the Latin legend 'DOMINUS BENEDICIT ET VRBEM' and 'TREVEREAM PLEBEM SANCTA REVERIS'. The lower portion carries handwritten text in German noting the date 'Trier, den 10. September 1923', a manuscript signature of the Oberbürgermeister, and a serial number at lower left, all within a decorative red ruled border. |
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| Obverse lettering | Zehn Millionen Mark 10 000 000 Dieser Gutschein wird von den städtischen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit 14 Tage nach Aufkündigung in den Trierer Ortsblättern. Die Stadtgemeinde Trier haftet für die Einlösung. Trier, den 10. September 1923 der Oberbürgermeister i.V. der Beigeordnete DOMINUS BENEDICIT ET VRBEM TREVEREAM PLEBEM SANCTA REVERIS |
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Trier's municipal treasury, like hundreds of German local authorities in the summer and autumn of 1923, was forced into issuing its own emergency currency as the Reichsbank's printing operation fell catastrophically behind the pace of hyperinflation. By the time a ten-million-mark denomination made practical sense, it was already obsolescent within weeks of printing — the same trajectory that would push denominations into the billions before the Rentenmark stabilization in November 1923.
Municipal Notgeld of this period was produced locally under severe time pressure, and Trier's examples reflect that urgency in their relatively plain execution compared to the decorative small-denomination Notgeld of 1920–21.