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100 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Düsseldorf (City of Düsseldorf) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 000 Mark (100 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | REIHE II 100 MILLIONEN MARK Stadt Düsseldorf DIE STADT DÜSSELDORF ZAHLT BEI IHREN SÄMTLICHEN KASSEN DEM VORZEIGER HUNDERT MILLIONEN MARK DÜSSELDORF, DEN 15. SEPTEMBER 1923. DER OBERBÜRGERM.: I.V. |
| Reverse description | Reverse of identical ochre-yellow and dark brown colour scheme, with the same diamond-pattern guilloche border on both vertical margins enclosing a central rectangular frame. The denomination is restated in three lines of bold blackletter script — 'Hundert Millionen Mark' — over a fine wavy-line guilloche underprint, with 'STADT DÜSSELDORF' in roman capitals at the top. A small ornamental cross device appears below the denomination text, and a two-line legal authority text in small roman type runs along the lower margin. |
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Düsseldorf's municipal administration was among dozens of German cities forced to print emergency currency in 1923 as hyperinflation rendered Reichsbank notes obsolete almost the moment they were issued. By the time this 100-million Mark note was authorized, the denomination — incomprehensible even a year earlier — had become functionally inadequate within weeks of printing. Cities, counties, and private firms all issued their own Notgeld simply to keep payroll moving.
The DeNG 12 reference places this within the specialized cataloging of German notgeld issues; the suffix "y" typically denotes a paper variant within the series. Municipal issues from this period were printed locally and often in small runs, making complete type collections genuinely difficult to assemble.