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100 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Landkreis Essen (District of Essen, Prussian Province of Rhine) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and red-brown Notgeld note with a fine guilloche underprint covering the entire field. A vertical red-brown ornamental panel at the left margin carries the denomination legend in Gothic script. The central text area, set against a scalloped guilloche cartouche, bears the issuer name, the denomination in large Fraktur lettering, and a redemption clause, with the date 'Essen, den 15. August 1923' and a manuscript signature below the 'Der Landrat i.V.' designation. Series letter 'H' and a serial number appear in the upper left and lower centre respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie H Der Landkreis Essen zahlt Einhundert Millionen Mark dem Einlieferer dieses Gutscheines 1 Monat nach Aufruf in den Essener Tageszeitungen. Essen, den 15. August 1923. Der Landrat i.V.: 100 Millionen |
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Landkreis Essen — the administrative district surrounding the city proper — issued this note independently of the city of Essen itself, a distinction that confuses collectors more often than it should. By August 1923, when 100-million-mark denominations became necessary for daily transactions, virtually every German municipality, district, and cooperative had emergency printing authority. The Landkreis exercised that right here.
The hundred-million figure sounds staggering but was briefly mundane — within weeks of notes like this entering circulation, they were already obsolete against the accelerating inflation that would peak in November 1923.