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10 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreis Kempen (District of Kempen, Prussian Rhine Province) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Kreis Kempen Zehn Millionen Mark zahlen gegen diesen Schein dem Einlieferer sämtliche Kassen des Kreiskommunalverbandes Kempen sowie der Gemeinden im Kreise Kempen während der Umlaufzeit. Den Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit nach Ablauf von vier Wochen nach Aufruf in den im Kreise erscheinenden Zeitungen. Kempen Rh. den 1. Aug. 1923 Der Landrat |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in green on cream paper and carries a dense guilloche underprint across the entire field, with decorative lace-pattern borders on all four sides. A central oval cartouche contains the denomination legend 'Zehn Millionen Mark' in white script lettering on a solid green ground, surmounted by a small ornamental rosette vignette at the top centre. Numeral denominators '10,000,000' appear in the upper left and upper right corners, and a serial number with letter prefix is printed in black in the lower centre, accompanied by the authorization text enclosed within a decorative panel. |
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Kreis Kempen was one of hundreds of German municipal and district authorities that printed emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923 — a period when the Reichsmark collapsed so rapidly that local administrations had no practical choice but to self-issue denominations that would have been unthinkable eighteen months earlier. By the time a ten-million-mark note was necessary for everyday transactions, the denomination itself was already struggling to keep pace with rising prices.
District-level Notgeld at this face value was typically redeemable for a matter of weeks before new issues overtook it. The Rentenmark reform of November 1923 rendered all such paper worthless and legally invalid almost immediately upon introduction.