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200 000 000 Mark Oggersheim
| Issuer | Stadt Oggersheim (Stadtkasse Oggersheim) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue and olive-yellow on cream paper, the note carries a decorative floral guilloche underprint in the centre with a large numeral '200' watermark-style underprint. The upper-left corner contains a four-line German verse within a ruled box, while the upper-right bears the bold numeral denomination '200.000.000 Millionen Mark' in a double-ruled panel. A circular municipal seal of Oggersheim from the 14th century, printed in ochre-brown at the lower left, displays a rampant lion with the legend 'STATT OGGERSHEIM' around the circumference. Two manuscript signatures appear below the issuing authority lines 'Bürgermeisteramt' and 'Stadtkasse', dated Oggersheim, den 24. August 1923. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Oggersheim. Die Stadtkasse Oggersheim zahlt dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines. Zweihundert Millionen Mark. No 006468. Oggersheim, den 24. August 1923. Bürgermeisteramt: Stadtkasse: Dieser Schein ist aufgrund des Stadtratsbeschlusses vom 14. August 1923 ausgegeben. — Das Ende der Umlaufzeit wird in Oggersheim öffentlich bekannt gemacht. Siegel aus dem 14. Jahrhundert. Druck von H. Riebsam, Oggersheim. Versuch es nur – vielleicht zum Glück / Für unsre arme Welt – / Und kehre wieder mal zurück / Zur Ehrfurcht vor dem Geld. |
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Oggersheim was a small independent town on the Rhine plain, absorbed into Ludwigshafen only in 1975, and its municipal treasury issued this 200-million-Mark note at the peak of the Weimar hyperinflation — a period when denominations escalated so rapidly that notes printed one week were functionally worthless by the next. The printer, H. Riebsam, was a local firm producing the notes in-house for the Stadtkasse, a setup common among smaller German municipalities that could not rely on the Reichsdruckerei to keep pace with demand.
Local emergency currency of this denomination and origin survives in surprisingly small quantities; most Notgeld from this tier of the inflation was spent and discarded within days of issue.