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20 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisverwaltung Siegkreis (District Administration of Siegkreis, Prussian Province of Rhine) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Zwanzig Millionen Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von allen öffentlichen Kassen im Siegkreise in Zahlung genommen. Er behält seine Gültigkeit bis zur Aufkündigung in den für die Veröffentlichung der amtlichen Bekanntmachungen der Kreisverwaltung bestimmten Zeitungen. Siegburg, 2. Aug. 1923. Der Landrat i.v. Kreisdeputierter 20,000,000 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a solid dark rose-red, with a central rectangular vignette of the Drachenfels rocky crag rising above the Rhine, rendered in a loose landscape style with billowing clouds; the caption 'DRACHENFELS' appears below the vignette. The denomination '20,000,000' is repeated in the left and right margins, and the district name 'Siegkreis' is inscribed in decorative blackletter script within ribbon cartouches at both the top and bottom. The entire composition is framed by a bold geometric border of alternating zigzag and star motifs. |
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Siegkreis — a rural district east of Bonn, straddling the Sieg river — was one of hundreds of German administrative bodies forced into emergency currency production during the hyperinflation of 1923. By the time this twenty-million mark note was printed, that denomination was already losing ground to inflation faster than paper could move through the press. B. Kühlen in Mönchengladbach was a commercial printer, not a security printing house, and the coloured underprint here is a modest gesture toward forgery deterrence rather than a genuine technical barrier.
The Rentenmark reform of November 1923 rendered the entire series worthless within weeks of issue.