100 000 000 Mark

Odenkirchen was a small industrial town in the Rhineland — absorbed into Mönchengladbach in 1975 — and like hundreds of German municipalities in the autumn of 1923, it was forced to issue its own emergency currency as the Reichsbank's printing capacity and distribution could not keep pace with hyperinflation. By the time a 100-million-mark note was warranted, the denomination itself was already obsolescent within weeks of printing; the Rentenmark stabilization arrived in November 1923.

Wezel & Naumann in Leipzig were among the most active commercial printers supplying Notgeld to municipalities across Germany during this period, producing notes for dozens of issuers simultaneously — which accounts for the competent but clearly volume-production quality of the lithography.