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100 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Ohligs (City of Ohligs) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Pink and dark purple Notgeld note with an elaborate guilloche underprint covering the entire field, enclosed within a scalloped decorative border. The denomination '100 Millionen Mark' is printed in large Gothic blackletter script at centre, flanked by the issuer inscription 'Stadt Ohligs' at top; corner vignettes repeat '100 Millionen' in vertical orientation. At lower centre, the circular municipal seal of Ohligs is impressed, accompanied by the date 'Ohligs, 1. Oktbr. 1923', a serial number with series letter 'B', and a manuscript signature above the title 'Der Bürgermeister'. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in reddish-brown on plain paper, the reverse carries a central oval vignette composed of three elements: a steamship at sea to the left, a heraldic shield bearing stars and a winged wheel at centre surmounted by a crenellated tower, and a steam locomotive pulling a train to the right, together evoking trade, transport, and industry. Below the vignette, the denomination 'Hundert Millionen Mark' is rendered in large Gothic script. A two-line legal text below reads 'Ausgegeben auf Grund der Ermächtigung des Reichsfinanzministeriums', and a cancellation stamp is visible at lower left. |
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Ohligs was an independent industrial town in the Bergisches Land — primarily a center for cutlery and tool manufacturing — before it was merged into Solingen in 1929. Like hundreds of German municipalities in 1923, it was forced to print its own emergency currency as the Reichsmark collapsed under hyperinflation. By the time denominations like this 100-million-Mark note entered circulation, the figure was barely enough for a loaf of bread; within weeks, it would be worth nothing at all.
The printer, Kunstanstalt Otto König, was a local commercial art press rather than a specialist security printer. That distinction matters — these municipal Notgeld issues had no meaningful anti-counterfeiting infrastructure, though by late 1923 the economic chaos made forgery largely pointless anyway.