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100 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Landkreises Bielefeld |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed Notgeld in red-brown and black on cream paper, with a decorative foliate border. Central vignette shows two women in traditional Westphalian dress facing one another beneath a stylized grain-sheaf arch; flanking vignettes depict a sower at left and a traveller at right. Denomination "100 Milliarden Mark" arcs across the top in bold Gothic script. |
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| Obverse lettering | 100 Milliarden Mark 100 Notgeld für den Landkreis Bielefeld Die Kreissparkasse in Bielefeld löst diesen Schein ein. Der Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach erfolgter Aufkündigung in der Westfälischen Zeitung - den Westfälischen Neuesten Nachrichten und der Volkswacht. Bielefeld, den 25. Okt. 1923 Der Kreisausschuss Offsetdruck G. Thomas, Bielefeld. |
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German district-level emergency money — Notgeld — proliferated in the hyperinflation of 1923 as central bank supply collapsed entirely under the weight of denomination increases. The Kreisausschuss des Landkreises Bielefeld was the administrative committee of the rural district surrounding Bielefeld, a distinct issuing authority from the city itself, which had its own parallel Notgeld program running simultaneously.
One hundred billion marks. By late 1923, that figure bought roughly a loaf of bread, and notes of this denomination were already obsolescent within days of printing. G. Thomas was a local Bielefeld printer pressed into monetary production like dozens of small German firms that year.