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20 000 000 000 Mark Kreis Ziegenhain
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss Ziegenhain (District Committee of Ziegenhain) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Typeset notgeld printed in red and black on plain white paper. A dense geometric guilloche underprint of repeating diamond and floral rosette units fills the face within a dotted rectangular border. The denomination '20 Milliarden Mark' is set in large bold black letterpress at centre, with the serial number at upper left and a large red '20' to the right margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse showing only the bleed-through impression of the obverse letterpress text and guilloche underprint in mirror image, confirming single-sided printing on thin paper stock. |
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Ziegenhain was a small administrative district in Hesse-Nassau, and by late 1923 its local committee had joined the flood of German municipal and district authorities printing their own emergency currency to keep pace with hyperinflation spiraling beyond anything the Reichsbank could manage. A denomination of twenty billion Mark was not exceptional for October–November 1923 — it was routine. Ordemann was a local print shop pressed into monetary service, not a specialist security printer, which shows in the typography.
The Rentenmark stabilization of November 15, 1923 rendered notes like this worthless within weeks of issue.