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100 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuß des Landkreises Flensburg |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 133.0 × 93.0 mm |
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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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| Obverse lettering | 100 Notgeld des Landkreises Flensburg 100 Hundert Milliarden Mark VOGEL Dieser Gutschein wird von der Kreis-Kommunalkasse in Zahlung genommen oder im Überweisungsverkehr vergütet. Einen Monat nach erfolgter öffentlicher Bekanntmachung verliert dieses Notgeld seine Gültigkeit. Flensburg, d. 7. Nov. 1923. Der Kreisausschuß. 4794 ✻ LANDRAT FLENSBURG KR. FLENSBURG ENTWURF U. DRUCK H. GEISEL, FLENSBURG |
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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.