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100 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreis-Ausschuß des Landkreises Solingen |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in violet on plain paper with a uniform guilloche lace-pattern border framing all four sides, corner panels carrying the numeral '100' in bold black type. A central rectangular vignette executed in fine black line engraving presents a panoramic view of a large Baroque administrative building complex, with a tall commemorative column to the left and wooded hills in the background. The denomination legend 'MILLIONEN' is set in bold capitals in the upper and lower horizontal bands, flanked by the numeral '100' at each corner. |
| Reverse lettering | 100 MILLIONEN 100 100 MILLIONEN 100 |
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Solingen's district committee — the Kreis-Ausschuß — issued this 100-million Mark note during the hyperinflationary peak of August–September 1923, when municipal and county authorities across Germany were legally empowered to print their own emergency currency, known as Notgeld, to cover the complete breakdown of centrally supplied notes. The Reichsbank simply could not print fast enough. Denominations escalated so rapidly that notes issued one week were functionally worthless the next.
Kunstanstalt Hermann Rabitz was a local Solingen print shop pressed into monetary service — not a security printer by trade. That distinction matters: these notes have no intaglio work, no security threads, no watermarks.