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250 000 000 Mark Rheinische Stahlwerke
| Issuer | Rheinische Stahlwerke A.G., Duisburg-Meiderich |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 250 000 000 Mark (250 000 000) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in grey-black on plain paper. At upper centre, the numeral denomination 250 000 000 is rendered in large open-circle display lettering, with the word Mark. in bold beneath. The central field is occupied by a panoramic urban vignette showing a townscape with a prominent round tower at left and a multi-storey building at right, linked by a riverside or roadway scene with figures and trees in the foreground. A decorative diamond-shaped ornamental motif, matching that on the obverse, is positioned at the left margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 250 000 000 Mark. |
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Rheinische Stahlwerke was one of the major Ruhr industrial conglomerates that began issuing its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank simply could not print and distribute legal tender fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. Corporate scrip of this type was technically illegal tender outside the issuing firm's payroll system, but in practice it circulated freely in the surrounding industrial towns because workers had no alternative.
A 250-million-Mark denomination tells you exactly where this sits in the timeline: late summer to early autumn 1923, before the zeroes became truly absurd.