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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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| Size | 144.5 x 90 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Umlauffähig im ganzen Reg. Bez.Aachen. Gültig bis zum 1. April 1924. Reihe A N° 069615 Dieser Gutschein wird von den städtischen Kassen in Eschweiler und Stolberg sowie von den Banken des Eschweiler-Stolb. Industriegebiets in Zahl. genommen Er verl. seine Gültigk. 4 Woch. nach Aufruf d. d. Öffentl. Blätter. Gutschein über Hundert Milliarden Mark Eschweiler-Stolberg 31. Oktober 1923. Die Bürgermeister : |
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| Reverse lettering | ESCHWEILER STOLBERG 100 Milliarden 100 Milliarden Mark |
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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.