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20 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkreis und Landkreis Coblenz |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein des Stadtkreises und des Landkreises Coblenz 20 Millionen Mark Dieser Kassenschein kann jederzeit bei der Stadtkasse und der Kreisgemeindekasse eingelöst werden. Coblenz, den 25. August 1923. Stadtkreis Coblenz Der Oberbürgermeister: Landkreis Coblenz Der Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses: |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a lighter purple on cream paper, with a fine guilloche underprint covering the entire field. At centre, the denomination numeral "20" is rendered in a large ornate cartouche flanked symmetrically on each side by the word "Millionen" in bold Gothic letterpress. The serial number prefix and number are typeset in Roman characters at the top centre above the guilloche field. |
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Coblenz in 1923 was under French occupation — a fact that makes its municipal Notgeld considerably more politically charged than equivalent inflation-era emergency money issued elsewhere in Germany. The city printed this note on its own authority during a period when the Reichsbank was functionally unable to supply denominations large enough for basic transactions. Twenty million marks sounds extraordinary; by late 1923 it barely covered a tram fare.
The guilloche underprint was included as a rudimentary counterfeit deterrent, though at these hyperinflationary denominations, forgery was scarcely worth the effort.