Germany’s 1924 100-trillion-mark banknote carried an extraordinary face value of 100,000,000,000,000 marks.

The note reads Hundert Billionen Mark because the German word Billion corresponds to “trillion” in modern American English. It also features Renaissance humanist Willibald Pirckheimer, based on a portrait by Albrecht Dürer.

This enormous denomination reflects the aftermath of Germany’s devastating hyperinflation. To restore stability, the Rentenmark was introduced in November 1923 at an exchange rate of one Rentenmark for one trillion paper marks.

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