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100 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Zweibrücken (City of Zweibrücken) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Zweibrücken Ausgegeben auf Grund des St. B. vom 13. August 1923. Gutschein über Einhundert Millionen Mark Zweibrücken, den 14. August 1923 Der Stadteinnehmer: Der Bürgermeister: 100 MILLIONEN MARK |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large woodcut-style vignette rendered in dark olive-green, portraying a rural landscape with a straight path or railway track receding into the distance between dense vegetation, with workers or figures visible in the foreground and farm implements to the sides; the denomination '100 MILLIONEN' is overprinted in large bold letters across the upper portion of the vignette. Warning and legal text appears in vertical orientation along both lateral margins. |
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Zweibrücken sat in the Rhenish Palatinate — French-occupied territory from 1918 onward — which made its hyperinflation notgeld a local administrative matter complicated by occupation politics. By the time hundred-million-mark denominations became necessary in late 1923, the Reichsbank's own supply chains were so overwhelmed that municipalities across the occupied zone were printing emergency money on whatever paper stock local printers could source.
The denomination itself marks a specific window: August–September 1923, when the inflation curve went near-vertical before the Rentenmark stabilization in November collapsed the entire notgeld system overnight.