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100 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Heilbronn (City Municipality of Heilbronn) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Grey-toned letterpress note with a decorative guilloche underprint and a faint vignette of Heilbronn's townscape at centre. The denomination "Hundert Millionen Mark" is set in bold Gothic blackletter script across the middle field, above a two-line payment text. A serial number appears vertically at left, with manuscript signatures of the Oberbürgermeister and Stadtpfleger at foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Notgeldschein der Stadtgemeinde Heilbronn 100,000,000 (Translation: Emergency banknote of the Municipality of Heilbronn 100,000,000) |
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Heilbronn issued this 100-million Mark note during the most acute phase of the German hyperinflation — August and September 1923, when municipal authorities across the Reich were authorized to print their own emergency currency, Notgeld, simply to meet payroll. The Reichsbank could not produce denominations fast enough to keep pace with depreciation, so cities filled the gap themselves.
By the time notes of this denomination were circulating, the figure on the face was already obsolete within days of issue. The Rentenmark reform of November 1923 rendered the entire series worthless at a conversion rate of one trillion paper Marks to one new Rentenmark.