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20 000 000 000 Mark Kreis Plön
| Issuer | Kreissparkasse des Kreises Plön |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Kreissparkasse des Kreises Plön Infolge der grossen Knappheit der Zahlungsmittel sehen wir uns veranlasst,Gutscheine herauszugeben 20 MILLIARDEN MARK zahlen wir dem Ueberbringer in Reichsbanknoten,sobald diese wieder vorrätig sind Aufruf erfolgt in der Plöner Zeitung Plön,den 5.November 1923 Kreissparkasse des Kreises Plön Kieper,Landrat. Landsberg,Bankdirektor |
| Reverse description | Uniface note; reverse is blank, printed on plain white paper with no design or text. |
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Plön is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of German county-level savings institutions in autumn 1923, its Kreissparkasse was authorized to issue notgeld denominated in the billions to keep local commerce moving as the Reichsbank's own supply collapsed under the weight of hyperinflation. The twenty-billion-mark denomination places this note firmly in October or November 1923 — the apex of the crisis, when a single U.S. dollar briefly exchanged for over four trillion marks.
The watermark is an uncommon feature for district-level emergency currency; most Kreis issuers at this scale used plain paper, making this a marginally more formally produced piece than typical county notgeld from the period.