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10 000 000 Mark Kreis Wipperfürth
| Issuer | Kreis Wipperfürth (District of Wipperfürth) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeldschein A No [serial] des Kreises Wipperfürth über Zehn Millionen Mark Dieser Notgeldschein wird von allen kommunalen und anderen öffentlichen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in den Blättern des Kreises Wipperfürth. Für die Einlösung haftet der Kreis Wipperfürth. Wipperfürth, den 15. September 1923 Der Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses Kreisdeputierter (Translation: Emergency banknote of the District of Wipperfürth for ten million marks. This emergency banknote is accepted by all municipal and other public cash desks. It loses its validity one month after announcements in the papers of the District of Wipperfürth. The District of Wipperfürth is liable for redemption. Wipperfürth, 15 September 1923. The Chairman of the District Committee. District Deputy.) |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue on plain cream paper. A dense all-over underprint of small rosette devices fills the note face, over which the denomination is set in three lines of bold display type: 'ZEHN MILLIONEN' at top, the large numeral '10 000 000' at centre, and 'MARK' at foot. A narrow vertical panel at right repeats the district name. |
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Kreis Wipperfürth was a rural district in the Bergisches Land region of the Rhineland, and like hundreds of German municipal and regional authorities in 1923, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — because the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough physical notes to keep pace with hyperinflation. By the time denominations reached eight figures, the printing cycles were measured in days, sometimes hours. A note issued on a Monday could be economically obsolete by Friday.
The ten-million mark figure alone dates this piece to a narrow window: roughly August–September 1923, before denominations climbed into the billions.