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100 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Cities of Eschweiler and Stolberg (Prussian province of Rhine) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 000 000 Marks (100 000 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Black-ground note with a central vignette of a blacksmith and a female figure flanking the denomination value. A vertical panel at left bears the validity and circulation conditions, with the serial number printed vertically between the two frames. The issuing authority inscription appears below the central text block, and the date and burgomasters' line is set at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Black-ground reverse with a central industrial landscape vignette flanked on either side by the municipal coats of arms of Eschweiler and Stolberg, with the respective town names inscribed alongside. The denomination in both numerals and words is set below the central vignette, with an additional denomination inscription contained within a vertical panel at right. |
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Eschweiler and Stolberg were neighboring industrial towns in the Aachen district, and their joint issue of this denomination reflects how thoroughly the Reichsbank's distribution network had collapsed by late 1923. Municipal and commercial bodies across the Rhineland were printing their own emergency currency — Notgeld — not as a novelty but out of genuine necessity, with payroll obligations arriving faster than official notes could be sourced or transported.
One hundred billion marks. The figure itself locates this precisely within the hyperinflationary peak of October–November 1923, when denominations of this magnitude had a useful life measured in days before becoming worth less than the paper they were printed on.