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100 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Zweibrücken (City of Zweibrücken) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld in brown on cream paper, enclosed within an ornate letterpress border of repeating geometric and foliate cartouches. The denomination 'Einhundert Millionen Mark' is set in large Gothic blackletter across the centre, above the issue date 14. August 1923. A circular official municipal stamp in violet appears at centre, flanked by two manuscript signatures below the roles 'Der Stadteinnehmer' and 'Der Bürgermeister'. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Zweibrücken's 100-million Mark notgeld dates from August or September 1923, when Reichsbank currency was losing value so rapidly that municipal and commercial authorities across Germany were forced to print their own emergency denominations just to make payroll. At that magnitude — nine zeros — the note wasn't circulating in any meaningful retail sense; it was a wage instrument, a stopgap for a week or a day before the figure became meaningless again.
The official stamp is the only security feature, which tells you everything about the urgency of production. Counterfeiting wasn't the concern — obsolescence was.