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100 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Bochum |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse repeats the same printed design as the face, executed in grey-blue guilloche on white paper, with the four corner medallions each bearing '100' within a 'MILLIONEN' circular legend. The large Gothic blackletter denomination 'Einhundert Millionen Mark' dominates the upper centre, with the promise-to-pay text and large '100' guilloche underprint below. The date, series letter, serial number, and dual facsimile signatures with their respective titles appear in the lower portion, identical in layout to the obverse, consistent with single-sided or mirror-printed Notgeld production practice of the period. |
| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Bochum Einhundert Millionen Mark zahlen die städtischen Kassen in Bochum dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines Bochum, 17. September 1923. Der Magistrat der Stadt Bochum Reihe S 100 MILLIONEN |
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Bochum's municipal authority issued this 100-million Mark note at the absolute peak of Weimar hyperinflation — by late 1923, denominations that would have seemed absurd in 1921 were insufficient to buy a loaf of bread. German cities and municipalities had broad latitude to issue their own emergency currency (Notgeld) throughout this period, partly because the Reichsbank simply could not print fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power.
Municipal printers working locally under these conditions often cut corners on security features. Forgery was, paradoxically, barely worth the effort at denominations like this.