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200 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Annweiler (Municipality of Annweiler) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 200 000 Mark (200 000) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher printed in black and red on plain paper, enclosed within a red decorative scalloped border. The large blackletter heading 'Gutschein' appears at the top centre, below which the issuing authority 'der Stadtgemeinde ANNWEILER über' is set in roman type. At centre, the municipal coat of arms of Annweiler — an eagle beneath a mural crown, printed in red — is flanked on either side by the denomination 'Mk. 200 000' and '200 000 Mk.' in bold Gothic numerals; the date 'Annweiler (Pfalz), den 24. August 1923' is printed below. Two manuscript signatures appear at the lower left and right, above the respective title lines 'Der Bürgermeister:' and 'Der Stadteinnehmer:', with a handwritten serial number in the upper left corner. |
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| Reverse lettering | Trifels Asselstein Annebos Munz 200000 Mk. |
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Annweiler am Trifels, a small town in the Palatinate, issued this 200,000 Mark note during the hyperinflationary summer of 1923 — a period when German municipal and commercial authorities printed emergency currency (Notgeld) simply because Reichsbank notes couldn't keep pace with denominations demanded by daily commerce. By August 1923, a single loaf of bread required hundreds of thousands of marks; by November, billions.
Municipal Notgeld of this denomination reflects a specific window of the inflation — late enough to require six-figure face values, but before the truly astronomical figures of the autumn collapse made such notes obsolete within days of issue.