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100 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft und Stadtrat Zittau |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typographically printed Notgeld note on cream paper with a pink guilloche underprint covering the entire field. The denomination "Hundert Millionen" is set in large blackletter script across the upper centre, with the numeral "100" flanking the word "Mark" in bold gothic type below. The heading "Notgeld." appears at the top with the serial number prefix and number to its right, beneath which a validity inscription in italic script names the Amtshauptmannschaft and Stadt Zittau. The lower portion carries a multi-line redemption text in italic letterpress, the issue date "Zittau, den 28. September 1923," two manuscript signatures under the designations "Der Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft" and "Der Stadtrat," and a list of authorised redemption banks. Anti-counterfeiting warnings are printed vertically in the left and right margins. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and plain, presenting a blank cream paper surface. Show-through of the obverse letterpress impression is visible, including the large denomination numerals and blackletter text, as well as the serial number readable in mirror image at the top edge. |
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Zittau's Bezirksverband issued this 100-Million-Mark note at the absolute peak of Weimar hyperinflation — August or September 1923, when municipal and district authorities across Germany were legally empowered to print their own emergency currency (Notgeld) simply to keep wages and retail transactions moving. The Reichsbank could not supply denominations fast enough. Gebrüder Güttler, a local Zittau printing firm, produced the note without any pretense of high-security technique; speed and volume were the only priorities.
The illegibility of the Stadtrat counter-signature is characteristic of late-hyperinflation issues — clerks were signing hundreds of sheets daily.