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500 000 000 000 Mark overprint on 100 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Bayerische Notenbank |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse of the underlying 100 Millionen Mark note is printed in dark blue-grey, with the denomination '100 Millionen Mark' repeated in large bold sans-serif type at the top and bottom of the design, enclosing a central rectangular text panel bearing the legal warning against counterfeiting and the recall clause, all within a multi-ruled guilloche border. The overall layout is typographic with no pictorial vignette, relying on the geometric border ornament for decorative effect. A red diagonal overprint reading 'Fünfhundert Milliarden' is applied diagonally across the reverse, consistent with the revaluation stamp on the obverse. |
| Reverse lettering | 100 Millionen Mark 100 Nachahmung oder Veränderung wird nach Maßgabe des achten Abschnittes des Strafgesetzbuches für das Deutsche Reich bestraft Vom 1 Des 1924 ab kahn diese banknote aufgerufen und unter umtausch gegen andere Bayerische Bank- noten oder gegen Reichsbanknoten eingezogen werden 100 Millionen Mark 100 Fünfhundert Milliarden Mark (Translation: 100 million Marks Imitation or alteration will be punished in accordance with Section 8 of the Penal Code of the German Reich. From 1 December 1924, this banknote will be recalled and exchanged for other Bavarian banknotes or Reichsbanknotes. 100 million Marks Five hundred billion Marks) |
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Bayerische Notenbank occupied an unusual position in Weimar-era Germany — unlike the Reichsbank, it was a regional issuing institution with authority specific to Bavaria, one of several state banks permitted to issue emergency currency during the hyperinflation spiral of 1923. This note belongs to the final, dizzying phase of that crisis, when denominations became obsolete faster than new plates could be engraved. Rather than printing fresh 500 Billion Mark notes from scratch, existing 100 Billion Mark stock was overprinted — a stopgap that itself became outdated within weeks.
The Rentenmark stabilization of November 1923 rendered the entire series worthless almost immediately after issue.