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20 000 000 Mark Kreis Wipperfürth
| Issuer | Kreis Wipperfürth (District of Wipperfürth) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 163 x 89 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeldschein des Kreises Wipperfürth über Zwanzig Millionen Mark Dieser Notgeldschein wird von allen kommunalen und anderen öffentlichen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in den Blättern des Kreises Wipperfürth. Für die Einlösung haftet der Kreis Wipperfürth. Wipperfürth, den 15. September 1923 Der Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses I. V. Kreisdeputierter (Translation: Emergency banknote of the District of Wipperfürth for Twenty Million Marks This emergency banknote is accepted by all municipal and other public cash desks. It loses its validity one month after announcement in the papers of the District of Wipperfürth. The District of Wipperfürth is liable for redemption. Wipperfürth, September 15, 1923 The Chairman of the District Committee By proxy District Deputy) |
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| Reverse lettering | ZWANZIG MILLIONEN 20 000 000 MARK (Translation: Twenty Million 20,000,000 Mark) |
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Kreis Wipperfürth was a rural administrative district in the Bergisches Land region of the Rhine Province, and like hundreds of similar Kreise across Weimar Germany, it issued its own emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923 when the Reichsbank simply could not print fast enough to meet demand. By the time denominations reached the tens of millions of marks, the notes were losing purchasing power faster than they could be distributed — a 20,000,000 Mark note would have bought a loaf of bread at best, and only briefly.
The Rentenmark stabilization of November 1923 rendered the entire series worthless within weeks of issue.