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100 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Zweibrücken (City of Zweibrücken) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 000 Mark (100 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned Notgeld voucher enclosed within an ornate dark guilloche border of interlocking scroll and foliate motifs. The main text panel carries the issuing authority title in Gothic blackletter at top, followed by the authorization clause and the denomination written out in full in large Gothic script; a vertical right-hand coupon panel carries the numeral value rotated 90 degrees. Two manuscript signatures appear at the foot of the note beneath their respective printed title lines, with a partially visible circular red municipal stamp applied as a control mark over the central underprint. |
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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 |
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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.