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1 000 000 Mark Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba
| Issuer | Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba (Steinkohlenbergwerk Hückelhoven) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 1 000 000 Mark (1 000 000) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark ink on plain paper and presents a large central vignette of a miner in working dress, wearing a traditional Schachtelmütze cap with crossed-hammer badge, standing against a guilloche-patterned diamond background with the colliery and a crowd of workers visible below. Oval cartouches at left and right contain the monogram 'SJ' and the miners' crossed-hammer symbol respectively, each framed by decorative foliate borders. The issuer name 'Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba, Hückelhoven' is printed in bold lettering along both the upper and lower borders, with the printer's imprint 'Schött A.G. Rheydt' at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | GEWERKSCHAFT SOPHIA-JACOBA, HÜCKELHOVEN SCHÖTT A.G. RHEYDT |
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Sophia-Jacoba was a hard coal mine in Hückelhoven, in the Rhineland, and like hundreds of German industrial concerns in 1923, it printed its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to pay workers when the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough physical notes to keep pace with hyperinflation. A million marks was a payroll denomination, not an abstraction. Hermann Schött A.G. in nearby Rheydt handled the printing, a regional commercial press used across multiple Rhineland Notgeld issues that year.
The mine itself operated continuously until 1997, one of the longer-lived collieries in the region.