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100 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Ulm (City of Ulm), Württemberg |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-green on a plain paper ground. A central oval vignette carries a detailed engraved view of Ulm's historic Rathaus (town hall) with its ornate stepped gable façade, the spires of Ulm Minster visible in the background. To the left, an empty serrated-border oval panel serves as a counterfoil field, and the city's heraldic shield appears at lower centre below the main vignette. The denomination '100 Millionen' is inscribed at upper centre and again at lower right in Gothic script, with the issuer's name 'Stadt Ulm a. d. Donau' at upper right. |
| Reverse lettering | 100 Millionen Stadt Ulm a. d. Donau 100 Millionen (Translation: 100 Million City of Ulm on the Danube 100 Million) |
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Ulm's municipal administration, like hundreds of German cities in the summer and autumn of 1923, was legally authorized under the emergency Notgeld provisions to print its own high-denomination paper to meet payroll and daily commerce. By the time this 100-Million-Mark note was issued, the Reichsbank could not produce currency fast enough — notes were arriving by weight, not by count, and local printers like Dr. Karl Bohn were contracted to fill the gap.
The hyperinflationary peak came fast. Notes of this face value were obsolete within weeks.