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200 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreiskommunalverband Saarburg (Kreis Saarburg, Rhine Province) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse printed in grey-black on unadorned paper within the same dotted-rule and foliate-corner letterpress border as the obverse. A central line-engraved vignette renders the heraldic castle of Saarburg — a turreted stone fortress with a cross-bearing shield above the gatehouse — flanked on either side by small decorative rosette ornaments. The curved denomination legend '200 000 Mark' arches above the vignette, while the issuer inscription 'KREIS SAARBURG.' is set in bold spaced capitals below. |
| Reverse lettering | 200 000 Mark KREIS SAARBURG. |
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Saarburg's 200,000 Mark note dates from the hyperinflationary summer of 1923, when the Reichsbank's supply of emergency currency was so overwhelmed that municipal and district authorities across Germany were legally empowered to issue their own Notgeld. The Kreiskommunalverband — the district communal association, a layer of local government below the Prussian Kreis administration — was an unusual issuing body even by the chaotic standards of that period.
By the time notes of this denomination were being printed, the 200,000 Mark face value was losing purchasing power within weeks of issue. Most Saarburg district Notgeld from this phase was redeemed and pulped during the currency reform of November 1923, which accounts for the relative scarcity of surviving specimens.