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200 Milliarden - Heilbronn

Issuer City of Heilbronn
Year 1923
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Weight 15.6 g
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Obverse description Central field bears the denomination inscription in large raised lettering arranged in four lines: NOTGELD flanking a small spread-eagle device at the top, followed by 200, MILLIARDEN, and MARK, each line separated by decorative foliate scroll ornaments. Below, the issuing municipality HEILBRONN is inscribed, with the date 1923 at the base flanked by the letters A and N as die-variety markers. The entire design is contained within a raised beaded border encircling the rim.
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Heilbronn issued this piece in the autumn of 1923, at the absolute peak of Weimar hyperinflation — the point at which 200 billion marks represented, briefly, a bus fare. Municipal notgeld of this denomination exists because the Reichsbank had catastrophically failed to supply adequate circulating coinage, forcing hundreds of German cities to strike their own emergency issues in bronze, zinc, and porcelain. Heilbronn's series is among the better-documented of the Württemberg municipal issues.

The Funck 638.3A designation places this within a known die variant sequence for the type.

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