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200 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Annweiler (Municipality of Annweiler) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a full-bleed halftone photographic vignette of the Palatinate Forest (Pfälzerwald) hills near Annweiler, showing the ruined rock formations of Asselstein at centre, with Trifels castle visible at far left and the Münz ruin at far right, all labelled in small type along the upper margin. Overprinted across the landscape in large red Gothic script is the denomination '200000 Mk.'. The composition is framed by the same red decorative scalloped border as the obverse. |
| 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.