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20 000 000 000 Mark Kreis Dinslaken
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Dinslaken |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Purple letterpress on cream paper with a guilloche underprint at center, flanked by diagonal hatched corner vignettes. The denomination "20 MILLIARDEN MARK" is printed in large bold type at center, with issuing authority text and date "18. Oktober 1923" in italic script below. Two manuscript signatures appear at bottom above the printed roles "Kreisdeputierter" and "Mitglieder". |
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| Reverse description | Purple letterpress on cream paper with two male portrait busts in framed vignettes flanking the denomination text at upper left and right. A detailed line-art vignette of the Kreishaus (district administrative building) with formal gardens occupies the lower half. The inscription "KREIS DINSLAKEN" is printed vertically in the side borders. |
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Dinslaken was a small administrative district (Kreis) in the Rhineland, and like hundreds of other German local authorities in late 1923, its Kreisausschuss was forced into the absurd position of printing its own emergency currency simply to meet payroll and keep commerce moving. The Reichsbank could not supply notes fast enough as hyperinflation compressed the real value of any denomination to near zero within days of printing. A 20-billion-Mark note, unthinkable eighteen months earlier, was by October–November 1923 barely sufficient for a loaf of bread.
Notgeld issued at this denomination level had an extremely short functional lifespan — often a matter of days before the face value was rendered worthless by further inflation. The Rentenmark reform of November 15, 1923 made all such issues instantly obsolete.