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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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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Dark-toned notgeld voucher with a central semi-circular vignette of the Sophia-Jacoba colliery complex at Hückelhoven, showing headframes, industrial buildings, and surrounding workers' housing. The denomination '1.000.000' appears in oval cartouches at upper left and right, with the issuer legend 'Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba, Hückelhoven' inscribed in Gothic script across the upper border beneath the heading 'Gutschein'. The lower portion bears the redemption text in German Fraktur script, a violet-stamped date of 31 August 1923, a serial number, and two manuscript signatures on behalf of the Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba. |
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| 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.