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10 000 000 Mark Homberg am Niederrhein
| Issuer | Stadt Homberg (Niederrhein) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 10 000 000 Marks (10 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Pink and red guilloche underprint with vertical stripe patterning frames the face of this Notgeld issue. The denomination "Zehn Millionen Mark" is set in large blackletter Gothic script at centre, above a text block in Fraktur stating payability at all municipal cashiers of Homberg and validity for one month after notice in the Kreis Moers newspapers, with the issue date "den 15. August 1923" and the authority line "Der Bürgermeister, i.V." followed by a manuscript signature. A green numeral underprint "10 Mill." appears at centre, with the series and serial number "SERIE VI No 0411" at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Homberg (Niederrhein) über Zehn Millionen Mark Zahlbar bei sämtlichen städt. Kassen Hombergs, Gültig noch 1 Monat nach erfolgter Aufkündigung in den im Kreise Moers erscheinenden Zeitungen. Homberg (Niederrhein), den 15. August 1923. Der Bürgermeister. i.V. SERIE VI No 0411 |
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Homberg am Niederrhein — a small industrial town on the left bank of the Rhine opposite Duisburg — issued notgeld at the ten-million mark level in the summer of 1923, when Weimar hyperinflation was accelerating fast enough that denominations became obsolete within weeks of printing. Municipal authorities across the Rhineland were issuing emergency currency largely because the Reichsbank simply could not supply legal tender in sufficient volume or at sufficient face value to keep local commerce functioning.
The occupied Rhineland added a particular layer of difficulty: French and Belgian troops had entered the Ruhr in January 1923, and the passive resistance campaign disrupted both rail distribution and federal supply chains, pushing towns like Homberg to fend for themselves.