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100 000 000 000 Mark Kreis Dinslaken
| Issuer | Kreisausschuß des Kreises Dinslaken |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 162 × 90 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green guilloche underprint with diagonal red-striped vignette panels at left and right forming a decorative frame. The denomination '100 MILLIARDEN MARK' is printed in large bold letterpress across the centre, with the issuing authority legend 'Der Kreisausschuß des Kreises Dinslaken' below. A text clause in German Gothic script sets out the redemption conditions dated 18. Oktober 1923, followed by three manuscript signatures above the titles 'Kreisdeputierter' and 'Mitglieder'; a serial number appears vertically on the right stub. |
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| Reverse description | Pale green ground with a central letterpress vignette of the Kreishaus (district administrative building) rendered in fine line engraving, set within formal gardens with a central path leading to the entrance portal labelled 'KREISHAUS'. Flanking the denomination panel at upper left and upper right are portrait vignettes of two bearded male figures in brown line-engraving, each within a ruled rectangular cartouche bearing the vertical inscription 'KREIS DINSLAKEN'. The denomination 'Hundert Milliarden Mark' is set in large Fraktur type at the top beneath the issuer heading 'Kreis Dinslaken'. |
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Dinslaken's Kreisausschuß — the district administrative committee — issued this note during the absolute peak of the Weimar hyperinflation, when the Reichsbank's own currency was depreciating faster than it could be printed and local authorities across Germany were legally permitted to issue Notgeld to keep wages and commerce moving. A hundred billion marks was not an extraordinary sum by late 1923 standards; by November of that year, a single US dollar exchanged for roughly 4.2 trillion marks.
District-level issues like this one typically had extremely short circulation lives — sometimes measured in days before the denomination became economically useless.