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100 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Trier (City of Trier) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 7/8#5209 |
| Obverse description | Cream-toned note printed in dark brown, red, and ochre, with a red ornamental vine border framing the entire face. The denomination 'Einhundert Millionen' is rendered in large Gothic blackletter script across the top, above a horizontal ochre band bearing 'Stadt' at left and 'Trier' at right in white Gothic lettering. At centre, a circular red seal of the City of Trier carries a Gothic architectural vignette of a bishop beneath a canopy with the legend 'SANCTA REVERIS' and surrounding Latin text. The lower portion carries the denomination word 'Mark' in Gothic script, a manuscript signature of the Oberbürgermeister with the date 'Trier, den 21. Sept. 1923', and a printed serial number at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | EINHUNDERT MILLIONEN MARK · STADT TRIER · |
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Trier's municipal administration was among hundreds of German local authorities forced to issue their own emergency currency in 1923 as Reichsbank supply collapsed under hyperinflation. By the time this note was authorized, the mark's purchasing power was deteriorating so fast that denominations previously unimaginable were routine — 100 million marks was already a transitional figure, not an endpoint. Notes of this type were often obsolete within days of printing.
The Trierer Druckerei Gesellschaft was a local commercial printer pressed into monetary service, as were many regional firms that year. Quality control was not the priority; speed was.