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200 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Bad Ems (City of Bad Ems), Hessen-Nassau |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Zweihundert Millionen Mark Dieser Kassenschein wird bei der Stadtkasse Bad Ems eingelöst. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in der Emser Tageszeitung Bad Ems, den 13. September 1923 Der Magistrat: No 28627 |
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| Protection description | Linien-Streifen-Gitter (line-stripe grid pattern watermark throughout the paper) |
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Bad Ems issued this 200,000,000 Mark note during the hyperinflationary collapse of late 1923, when German municipal and regional authorities were printing emergency currency — Notgeld — faster than the Reichsbank could supply legal tender. By the time denominations reached nine figures, the purchasing power of a note was often obsolete within days of printing. The watermarked paper on this issue was almost certainly recycled from earlier, more stable printing stocks rather than procured fresh for the purpose.
The Keller reference places it firmly in the second variant of this denomination for Bad Ems, distinguishing it from the closely related first issue by a detail that remains easy to overlook without direct comparison in hand.