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100 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Barmen (City of Barmen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 000 Mark (100 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Typographically designed Notgeld note printed in dark green on a light green-grey ground, with the city coat of arms of Barmen rendered as a pale underprint vignette at centre. The denomination '100 Millionen' appears in Gothic blackletter at both upper corners, with the large centrepiece legend 'Einhundert Millionen Mark' in bold Gothic script. The issue date 'Barmen, 24. Sept. 1923' and the authority line 'Der Oberbürgermeister:' are set below, accompanied by a manuscript signature at lower right, with a serial number at lower left within a plain ruled border. |
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| Obverse lettering | 100 Millionen Gutschein der Stadt Barmen über Einhundert Millionen Mark Barmen, 24. Sept. 1923 Der Oberbürgermeister: No 414730 |
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Barmen's local administration — like hundreds of German municipalities in late 1923 — was forced to issue its own emergency currency because the Reichsbank simply could not print fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation. By the time a 100-Million-Mark note left the press at Gebr. Schlesendal, a loaf of bread might already cost more. The printer was a local commercial firm, not a specialist security printer, and it shows: these Notgeld issues relied on an official municipal stamp as the primary anti-counterfeiting measure, which was rudimentary even by the standards of the day.
Barmen itself ceased to exist as an independent city in 1929, absorbed into the newly formed Wuppertal.