100 000 000 000 Mark

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.