See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration! or register with email

Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!

200 Milliarden - Heilbronn

Issuer City of Heilbronn
Year 1923
Type Emergency coin
Value Log in to see details
Currency Log in to see details
Composition Log in to see details
Weight Log in to see details
Diameter Log in to see details
Thickness Log in to see details
Shape Log in to see details
Technique Log in to see details
Orientation Log in to see details
Engraver(s) Log in to see details
In circulation to Log in to see details
Reference(s) Log in to see details
Obverse description Log in to see details
Obverse script Latin
Obverse lettering Log in to see details
Reverse description Within a continuous beaded border, the reverse carries a finely modelled high-relief allegorical scene depicting a crowd of men and women in contemporary early 1920s dress dancing exuberantly around a tall classical column, atop which stands a golden calf — a direct biblical allusion to idolatry employed as satirical commentary on the Weimar hyperinflation crisis. The figures are rendered in an expressive, dynamic style with outstretched limbs conveying frenzied, disordered movement. The reverse field bears no legend or inscription, the satirical imagery serving as the sole communicative element. The composition exemplifies the sophisticated artistic and political commentary frequently encountered in higher-denomination German Notgeld of 1923.
Reverse script Log in to see details
Reverse lettering Log in to see details
Edge Log in to see details
Mint Log in to see details
Mintage 1923
Additional information Log in to see details

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE