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500 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Vereinigte Kreise Cochem, Simmern und Zell (Prussian Rhine Province) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfhundert Millionen Mark zahlen die vereinigten Kreise dem Einlieferer bis 1 Monat nach Aufruf. Cochem, Simmern, Zell, den 1. Oktober 1923. |
| Reverse description | Plain cream reverse printed in black letterpress with a single-rule border. The denomination 'Fünfhundert Millionen Mark' is set in bold Fraktur type across the centre, with ghost show-through of the obverse text and vignettes visible through the thin paper stock. |
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This is Rheinland notgeld from the peak of the German hyperinflation, issued by a joint administrative grouping of three Prussian Rhine Province districts — Cochem, Simmern, and Zell — pooling authority to produce emergency currency when the Reichsbank could not keep denominations pace with price movements. By late 1923, 500 million marks would barely cover a loaf of bread, and many such district-issued notes were superseded by even larger denominations within weeks of printing.
The engraver credit "Fünfhundert Millionen Mark" in the metadata is almost certainly a misread of the face-value text, not an actual engraver name.