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200 000 000 Mark Reichsbahndirektion
| Issuer | Reichsbahndirektion Frankfurt am Main |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 163 × 97 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | REICHSBAHNDIREKTION FRANKFURT/M Gutschein ZWEIHUNDERT MILLIONEN MARK zahlt die Eisenbahn-Hauptkasse Frankfurt an Main gegen diesen Gutschein dem Einlieferer,sobald gesetzliche Zahlungsmittel wieder zur Verfügung stehen.Der Gutschein wird von unsern sämtlichen Kassen an Zahlungsstatt angenommen.Der Zeitpunkt,mit dem die Gültigkeit Ablauf,wird öffentlich bekannt gemacht werden REICHSBAHNDIREKTION FRANKFURT A.M.,26.SEPTEMBER 1923 |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Reichsbahndirektion Frankfurt am Main was one of several regional railway directorates authorized to issue emergency currency during the hyperinflationary collapse of 1923. These were not banking institutions — they were transport bureaucracies pressed into monetary service because the Reichsbank simply could not print fast enough to meet payroll and operational demands. Railway workers needed wages denominated in figures that would have been unthinkable eighteen months earlier.
At 200,000,000 Mark, this note was already obsolescent within days of issue. By November 1923, the Rentenmark reform rendered the entire Notgeld corpus worthless overnight.