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100 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Hardenberg-Neviges |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 000 Mark (100 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured note of typeset letterpress construction with a fine dot-pattern guilloche underprint throughout. A double-rule border frames the face, with the denomination "100 Millionen" repeated vertically in bold type along both lateral margins. The serial number and denomination value "M 100.000000.-" appear across the upper register, below which the issuing text is set in a cursive Fraktur script; the large denomination legend "Hundert Millionen" is printed in bold display type at centre. At lower left a circular official ink stamp of the Stadtkasse Hardenberg-Neviges, bearing a spread eagle vignette, is applied in violet, accompanied by a manuscript authorisation signature in violet ink and the issue date "Neviges, den 20. Aug. 1923." |
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| Obverse lettering | Nr. M 100.000000.- Die Städtische Sparkasse Hardenberg-Neviges wolle zahlen gegen diesen Scheck aus unserm Guthaben an Inhaber oder Überbringer die Summe von Mark Hundert Millionen ooo Einlösungsfrist bis zum 31. Oktober 1923. ooo Neviges, den 20. Aug. 1923. Stadtkasse Hardenberg-Neviges 100 Millionen |
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Hardenberg-Neviges was a small industrial town in the Bergisches Land, and its municipal savings bank — the Städtische Sparkasse — was among hundreds of local German institutions forced to issue their own emergency currency in 1923 as Reichsbank notes became worthless faster than Berlin could print replacements. At the hundred-million-mark denomination, this note was already obsolete within days of issue; by November 1923, a single US dollar exchanged for over four trillion marks.
L. Syring was a local printer, not a specialist security firm. The technical limitations of such a press show in surviving examples.