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100 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Duisburg (City of Duisburg) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark green and brown tones on a tan underprint, enclosed within a decorative guilloche border with ornate corner pieces. The denomination "Einhundert Milliarden Mark" is rendered in large Gothic blackletter script across the centre, over a pale red guilloche underprint numeral "100"; the heading "Notgeld der Stadt Duisburg" appears at the top in Gothic script, with the numeral 100 repeated at each corner. Two small green heraldic shields of the City of Duisburg flank a block of redemption text, below which the place and date "Duisburg, den 25. Sept. 1923" and a manuscript signature of the Oberbürgermeister appear alongside a green serial number. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Duisburg Einhundert Milliarden Mark zahlen gegen diesen Schein dem Einlieferer die städtische Sparkasse, die Stadthauptkasse und die Zweigstellen dieser Kassen in Duisburg Der Aufruf des Duisburger Stadtnotgeldes erfolgt unter Angabe der Einlieferungsfrist in den Duisburger Tageszeitungen. Mit dem Ablauf der Einlösungsfrist verliert dieser Schein seine Gültigkeit Duisburg, den 25. Sept. 1923 Der Oberbürgermeister: i.V. 100 |
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Duisburg's hundred-billion-mark note was issued during the final weeks of the hyperinflation peak in late 1923 — a period when municipal governments across the Ruhr were printing their own emergency currency partly because Reichsbank supply simply could not keep pace with demand, and partly because French and Belgian occupation forces had severed normal financial infrastructure following the Ruhr occupation that began in January of that year.
Local Notgeld at this denomination is intrinsically ephemeral. Notes were often obsolete within days of issue, overtaken by the next order of magnitude before they could complete a single transaction.