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200 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Ohligs (City of Ohligs) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 200 000 000 Mark (200 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown on salmon-pink paper, the obverse is enclosed within an elaborate letterpress border of foliate and acanthus scroll ornaments. The denomination is set in large bold type at centre — 'Zweihundert Millionen Mark' — flanked on either side by small municipal coat-of-arms vignettes within dotted cartouches. Below the denomination, a text clause states the bearer obligation, the place and date of issue (Ohligs, den 25. September 1923), a green-printed serial number with prefix letter, and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister. The printer's imprint 'Wilhelm Müller Jr. G.m.b.H., Ohligs' appears in small type at the lower centre margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Stadt Ohligs 200.000.000 Mark Herausgegeben auf Grund der Ermächtigung des Reichsfinanzministeriums |
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Ohligs was a small industrial town in the Rhineland, known primarily for its cutlery and tool manufacturing — hardly a financial center. Yet like hundreds of German municipalities in 1923, it was forced into the notgeld business when hyperinflation rendered Reichsbank supply completely inadequate for daily wage payments. The 200-million-mark denomination, unthinkable even a year earlier, was routine by late summer 1923, when prices were doubling weekly.
Wilhelm Müller Jr. was a local printer, not a specialist banknote firm. The note was made for immediate functional use, not collection.