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100 000 000 Marks
| Issuer | Stadt Dülken (City of Dülken, Rhineland) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Pink underprint of a building vignette on a light ground; circular blue municipal seal of Stadt Dülken at upper left with lion and tower motif. Denomination '100,000,000 Mark' printed vertically at right in bold dark type. |
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| Protection description | Blue circular official municipal stamp of Stadt Dülken applied on obverse; hand-signed by a deputising municipal official. |
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Dülken was a small textile town in the Lower Rhine region, and like hundreds of German municipalities in the autumn of 1923, it was forced to print its own emergency currency simply to meet payroll. The Reichsbank could not supply denominations fast enough as hyperinflation compressed the real value of any printed note to near zero within days of issue. Local printer M. Schmitz — almost certainly a commercial job printer, not a specialist currency producer — handled the work, which accounts for the purely functional appearance typical of late-stage Notgeld at these astronomical face values.
The countersignature line reads "i.V. des Bürgermeisters" — on behalf of the mayor — with the first deputy, H. Krony, signing in his place. By October 1923, many municipal officials were simply rubber-stamping sheets as fast as they could be produced.