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200 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Zweibrücken (City of Zweibrücken) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black and violet on plain buff paper without a border frame. The right two-thirds of the face carries a large circular wreath-style underprint in pale grey-green, within which the denomination '200 MILLIONEN MARK' is set in bold roman type; four stylised floral rosette ornaments in violet mark the cardinal points around the wreath. The left margin contains two vertical columns of small Gothic blackletter text: a forgery warning on the far left and a redemption notice in the adjacent column, both flanked by narrow decorative rules and small architectural ornamental vignettes at top and bottom. |
| Reverse lettering | 200 MILLIONEN MARK Dieser Gutschein wird zur Einziehung und Einlösung aufgerufen werden. Wer Gutscheine nachmacht oder verfälscht, das Nachgemachte oder Verfälschte sich beschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter 2 Jahren bestraft. |
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Zweibrücken's 200-million Mark note dates from the absolute peak of Weimar hyperinflation — by late 1923, municipal authorities across Germany had no choice but to issue their own emergency currency (Notgeld) because the Reichsbank simply could not print fast enough to meet daily transactional demand. Denominations that would have been unthinkable a year earlier became routine grocery-run money within weeks.
Stadt Zweibrücken, a small Palatinate city under French occupation at the time, had additional complications: the occupied Rhineland operated under constrained economic conditions separate from the rest of Germany, making local liquidity crises more acute than in unoccupied territory.