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100 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft und Stadtrat der Stadt Zittau |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld Gültig im Bezirke der Amtshauptmannschaft und der Stadt Zittau. Hundert Milliarden Mark Zahlen der Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft und die Kassen der Stadt Zittau gegen Rückgabe dieses Notgeldes. Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nachdem im amtlichen Teile der Sächsischen Staatszeitung und der Zittauer Nachrichten die Ausserverkehrsetzung seitens der obengenannten Zahlstellen gemeinsam bekannt gemacht worden ist. Zittau, den 1. November 1923. Der Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Der Stadtrat Einlösungsstellen sind: Commerz- und Privat-Bank A.-G., Filiale Zittau — Dresdner Bank, Filiale Zittau — G. E. Heydemann — Oberlausitzer Bank, Abteilung der Allgemeinen Deutschen Credit Anstalt — Stadtgirokasse — Städte- und Staatsbank der Oberlausitz — Zittauer Handelsbank Alfred Peter sowie deren Niederlassungen in der Oberlausitz. Fälschungen und Nachahmungen werden nach den Strafgesetzen verfolgt. CARL BOES, ZITTAU |
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| Signature(s) | Lichter and Zwingenberger |
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Zittau's district authority issued this 100-billion Mark note in the autumn of 1923, when hyperinflation had rendered Reichsbank supply entirely inadequate for daily commerce. Notgeld of this denomination was being turned over within hours of issue — shopkeepers were reportedly adjusting prices mid-morning, making yesterday's notes functionally worthless by afternoon. Carl Boes was a local Zittau printer, not a specialist currency house, which is typical of emergency issues at this scale: the Reichsdruckerei was simply not equipped to supply every Amtshauptmannschaft in Saxony.
Lichter and Zwingenberger were district administrative officials, not bank signatories — a distinction that mattered legally if the currency was ever challenged.