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100 000 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisamt Bingen (District of Bingen, Hesse) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Pale orange-tan note with an overall repetitive stylised heart-motif guilloche underprint covering the entire field. A vertical left-hand panel, set off by a ruled border, carries a sideways validity legend. The district arms of Bingen am Rhein appear as a small intaglio-style vignette in the lower left quadrant, beside the place-and-date inscription 'Bingen am Rhein, den 20. Oktober 1923.' The large denomination '100 Milliarden Mark' is set in bold letterpress type at centre, with the issuer legend 'Gutschein des Kreises Bingen' above and the redemption and forgery-warning texts below, the whole concluded by the manuscript authorisation signature of the Kreisamt Bingen to the right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and plain, showing only the cream-white paper stock; the obverse text and guilloche underprint are partially visible as a show-through, with two vertical fold lines evident across the surface. |
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Bingen's hundred-billion Mark note is a product of the most acute phase of Weimar hyperinflation — October 1923, when the Reichsbank could not supply currency fast enough and district and municipal authorities across Germany were legally permitted to issue emergency Notgeld to meet payroll and daily commerce. Kreisamt Bingen was one of hundreds of such local issuers, each printing whatever denomination the collapsing exchange rate demanded that week.
By November 1923 the Rentenmark reform had rendered all these notes worthless. Most were never redeemed; many were burned.