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200 Reichsmark Bond
| Issuer | Reichsschuldenverwaltung |
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| Year | 1925 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Stiff white paper with an ornate dark green border frame and green-on-light-green letterpress text throughout. A red stamp impression appears at lower left, and the note has been punch-hole cancelled. The entire face is text-based with no pictorial vignette, typical of German Reich debt instruments. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface; the reverse is entirely blank white paper, bearing only the show-through of the obverse text visible from the recto, with no printed design, text, or vignette of its own. |
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The Reichsschuldenverwaltung — the Reich Debt Administration — issued these bonds as part of Germany's post-inflation fiscal reconstruction following the catastrophic hyperinflation of 1921–1923. The Rentenmark stabilization of late 1923 had stopped the bleeding, but the Reich still needed to rebuild public debt instruments that the market would actually trust. These 200 Reichsmark bonds were part of that slow, deliberate process of restoring credibility to German state paper.
The watermark security was modest by contemporary standards, reflecting both cost constraints and the expectation that these instruments would circulate among institutional holders rather than the general public. Forgery risk was considered lower in that channel.