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200 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Bingen am Rhein (City of Bingen on the Rhine) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted, with plain cream paper stock showing fold lines and a faint bleed impression of the obverse official stamp visible at lower centre. |
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| Signature(s) | I. V.: Lippert |
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Bingen am Rhein was one of hundreds of German municipalities forced to print their own emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank simply could not supply notes fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. A 200,000 Mark denomination, which would have seemed extraordinary just months earlier, was already inadequate by mid-1923 — the same face value was buying progressively less with each week of circulation.
A. J. Pennrich Nachf. G.m.b.H. was a local Bingen printer, not a security printing house, which explains why the only authentication measure was an official municipal stamp rather than any embedded printing security. Lippert's signature appears under the abbreviation "I. V." — *in Vertretung*, signing on behalf of a superior authority.