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Denomination set – German papiermark of the Weimar Republic (1920–24)

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Reason: High quality, high EV (denomination set). Between 1920 and 1924, the Treasury of the Weimar Republic issued German papiermark. Sixty-six different main designs (not including varieties) were issued (69 were created, but 3 were not put into circulation). Portraits by Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein the Younger, Hans Memling, Barthel Beham, and Barthel Bruyn the Elder (among others) are used on some of the papiermark notes.
Severe war time and post-World War I inflation spiraled into hyperinflation necessitating larger and larger denominations of banknotes. The four-year Weimar Republic papiermark issue spans 35 denominations ranging from 10 mark to 100 trillion mark. In October 1923 Germany suffered the fourth highest inflation rate in modern history (29,500% for the month, approximately 21% interest daily).
For the sake of accuracy, it is important to note that one denomination is missing from the current set. The 50 trillion (billionen) mark note is arguably the rarest in the denomination set. Several museum-housed numismatic collections contain the 100 trillion (billionen) mark note while lacking an example of the 50 billionen (e.g., National Numismatic Collection, Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin). Attempts made over the past six months to obtain a high quality/high resolution image of the note from the numismatic community (i.e., world paper money dealers and auction houses) have been fruitless. An example does exist on commons, but it is a low quality image that does not fit with the image size, quality, and detail of the remaining notes in the set. The search will continue until a suitable example is found.
Thanks in advance to reviewers of this longer than usual set nomination.
Original: A 34-note (nearly) complete denomination set of German Papiermark reflecting the magnitude of Germany’s post-World War I inflation. Denominations (lowest and highest) rose from 10 and 100 mark in 1920 to 10 trillion and 100 trillion mark in 1924. Notes without a reverse side were only printed on one side and note dimensions can be found in the article table. The images are presented using a css image crop of the front (click on the thumbnail for the entire nominated image) in a tabular format, as typical FPC gallery formatting does not support css image crop. A note regarding the translation of denominations from German to English – Million (Millionen, plural) is Million, Milliarde (Milliarden) is Billion, and Billion (Billionen) is Trillion.
Articles in which these images appear: German Papiermark (all), Deutsche Mark (1), Albrecht Dürer (3), Meyer zum Pfeil (1)
FP category for this image: Currency
Creator: Reichsbankdirektorium Berlin
From the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History
Images by Godot13

German Papiermark of the Weimar Republic (1920 – 1924) denomination set
Papiermark	Papiermark
10 Mark (1920)	50 Mark (1920)
100 Mark (1920) Bamberg riders at Bamberg Cathedral	500 Mark (1922) Jakob Meyer of the Meyer zum Pfeil family
1,000 Mark (1922)	5,000 Mark (1922) Merchant Imhof based on Bildnis eines unbekannten Mannes by Dürer
10,000 Mark (1922) Bildnis Eines Jungen Mannes by Dürer	20,000 Mark (1923)
50,000 Mark (1922) Bürgermeister Arnold von Brauweiler by Bruyn	100,000 Mark (1923) Merchant Georg Giese, Der Kaufmann Georg Gisze by Holbein
200,000 Mark (1923)	500,000 Mark (1923)
1 Million Mark (1923)	2 Million Mark (1923) Der Kaufmann Georg Gisze by Holbein
5 Million Mark (1923)	10 Million Mark (1923)
20 Million Mark (1923)	50 Million Mark (1923)
100 Million Mark (1923)	500 Million Mark (1923)
1 Billion Mark (1923) Jörg Herz Münzmeister by Pencz	5 Billion Mark (1923)
10 Billion Mark (1923)	20 Billion Mark (1923)
50 Billion Mark (1923)	100 Billion Mark (1923)
200 Billion Mark (1923)	500 Billion Mark (1923) Hans Urmiller und Sohn (section) by Beham
1 Trillion Mark (1923)	2 Trillion Mark (1923)
5 Trillion Mark (1923)	10 Trillion Mark (1924)
20 Trillion Mark (1924) Bildnis einer jungen Venezianerin by Dürer	100 Trillion Mark (1924) Willibald Pirckheimer (based on art by Dürer)

Support as nominator – Godot13 (talk) 01:02, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support – Two hundred billion marks – I'm rich! Time to by me a Murr' Cedes-Benz... (Historical EV.) Sca (talk) 02:21, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Shows the hyperinflation during this period too. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 06:57, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support, even though the record holder is mind-blowing 100 quintillion Hungarian pengo. Btw, I bought the book Beauty and the Banknote: Images of Women on Paper Money by Virginia Hewitt, if anyone is interested in scans, will do. Brandmeister^talk 21:15, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My 'brary doesn't have it – sounds interesting. Does it have this one? Sca (talk) 23:27, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

From what I see, nope, alas. Brandmeister^talk 07:38, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Tremonist (talk) 13:31, 22 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support though I'm not sure I like the naming of them in "modern" numbering, you are screwed whatever you do there. Belle (talk) 13:03, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support –Hafspajen (talk) 16:49, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - quite interesting bit of history, I wonder how it compares with inflation in Zimbabwe. — Cirt (talk) 20:26, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Cirt-Germany was the fourth most severe single month hyperinflation in history. Zimbabwe was number two- 79.6 billion% (98% per day, November 2008)...--Godot13 (talk) 23:01, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - Wow, a cautionary tale. Thank you! — Cirt (talk) 23:03, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Jobas (talk) 20:36, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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