100 000 000 Mark Landkreis Bonn

Landkreis Bonn — the rural administrative district surrounding the city, distinct from the municipal government — issued this note under emergency powers during the hyperinflation peak of autumn 1923, when the Reichsbank could not supply currency fast enough to meet payroll and basic commerce. The Kreis-Ausschuss, essentially a county executive committee, had no tradition of note issuance; it was pressed into it by circumstance. Notgeld at this denomination level was obsolete almost immediately after printing — by November 1923, a hundred million marks bought almost nothing.

Locally printed issues from district-level authorities rather than municipal or savings bank issuers are less common in Rhineland Notgeld collecting.