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200 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreis Moers (District of Moers) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Reihe 1 No 209845 HERAUSGEGEBEN MIT GENEHMIGUNG DES 200 MILLIONEN KREIS 200 MOERS Millionen Mark Zahlbar bei sämtlichen kommunalen Kassen im Kreise Moers Gültig noch 6 Monate nach erfolgter Aufkündigung in den im Kreise Moers erscheinenden Zeitungen MOERS, den 20. SEPTEMBER 1923 DER LANDRAT REICHSFINANZ- MINISTERIUMS Gültig bis 30. April 1924 Umlaufsfähig im ganzen linksrheinischen Teile |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown on plain white paper and carries a simple rectangular multi-line border. A central oval guilloche panel contains the large Gothic-numeral denomination '200.000.000' set between the inscriptions 'Kreis' above and 'Moers' below in blackletter script. The four corners each bear inverted and upright tablet cartouches inscribed '200 MILLIONEN', providing a repeating corner denomination motif against a lightly engine-turned background. |
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Kreis Moers — a largely industrial district in the Lower Rhine region — issued this 200,000,000 Mark note during the peak inflationary spiral of late 1923, when the Reichsmark was collapsing faster than the central bank could respond. District and municipal authorities across Germany stepped in to print their own emergency currency, Notgeld, not as an act of defiance but out of sheer necessity: workers needed payable denominations that matched the daily wage calculations as prices doubled every few days.
The Moers district was coal country, and keeping miners paid was not an abstraction. By the time this denomination existed, two hundred million marks bought roughly a loaf of bread.