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500 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Regierungsbezirk Trier und Provinz Birkenfeld |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| In circulation to | 1 April 1924 |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfhundert Millionen Mark Dieser Schein wird von sämtlichen öffentlichen Kassen des Reg.-Bez. Trier und der Provinz Birkenfeld eingelöst. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in den Amtsblättern des Reg.-Bez. Trier und der Prov. Birkenfeld. Die unterzeichneten Kommunalverbände haften für die Einlösung. Die vereinigten Kreise des Reg.-Bez. Trier, die Stadt Trier und die Prov. Birkenfeld. TRIER, den 10. Oktober 1923 Der Ausschuss: No Umlauffähig im Reg.-Bezirk Trier und Provinz Birkenfeld. Gültig bis zum 1. April 1924. SCHAAR & DATHE, A.-G., TRIER |
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| Reverse lettering | Fünfhundert Millionen Mark 500.000.000 |
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Regierungsbezirk Trier und Provinz Birkenfeld was one of dozens of regional German authorities that resorted to printing their own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the hyperinflationary collapse of 1923. By the time this 500-million-mark denomination was issued, the Reichsmark had deteriorated to the point where notes of this face value were functionally small change. Schaar & Dathe in Trier, a local commercial printer pressed into monetary service, produced the series.
Provinz Birkenfeld's administrative anomaly is worth noting: it was a Prussian exclave entirely surrounded by non-Prussian territory, governed jointly with the Trier district precisely because standalone administration was impractical.