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100 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuß des Landkreises Flensburg |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Designer(s) | Vogel |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark purple-brown on pale grey paper, the note is framed by a decorative border of floral and foliate garlands forming an arch across the upper portion, within which a ribbon cartouche carries the issuer inscription. A central vignette renders a landscape view with a tall church or water tower rising above trees and rolling terrain, executed in fine letterpress line engraving. Below the vignette, the denomination "Hundert Milliarden Mark" is set in bold blackletter type, followed by the legal tender text, the date "7. Nov. 1923", a red serial number, three manuscript signatures, and a circular official seal of the Landrat Flensburg at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is essentially unprinted, showing plain white paper with visible show-through of the obverse design and a faint ghost impression of the serial number and official seal bleeding through from the face. |
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District-level emergency money — Notgeld — issued by the Flensburg rural district committee during the peak of the German hyperinflation. By late 1923, municipal and county authorities across Germany were forced to print their own denominations simply because the Reichsbank could not supply currency fast enough to keep pace with price collapse. A hundred billion marks was not an extraordinary sum at that moment; in November 1923, a single loaf of bread in Germany cost roughly 200 billion.
H. Geisel was a local Flensburg printer, not a specialist security press — typical for county-level Notgeld, where production speed mattered far more than anti-counterfeiting measures.