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100 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Finanzdeputation Hamburg |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset emergency issue (Notgeld) printed in dark grey-green on an uncoloured paper stock, with a fine guilloche border enclosing the entire face. The four corners each carry a vignette of a Hamburg city gate tower within an ornamental cartouche bearing the denomination numeral '100' and the word 'MILLIONEN' in vertical orientation. A large underprint of the denomination figures '100 100' and the word 'MILLIONEN' occupies the centre field, over which the value 'Hundert Millionen Mark' is set in bold blackletter type. The issuing authority title, date of 24 September 1923, acceptance clause, two manuscript signatures, and a circular Finanzdeputation Hamburg seal appear in the lower half, with the printer's imprint 'H. O. Persiehl, Hamburg.' at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | 100 MILLIONEN 100 MILLIONEN 100 100 100 MILLIONEN Aushilfsschein der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg A 088982 Hundert Millionen Mark Dieser Aushilfsschein wird von allen hamburgischen staatlichen Kassen und den Banken in Hamburg in Zahlung genommen. Hamburg, den 24. September 1923. Die Finanzdeputation: Die Hauptstaatskasse: FINANZDEPUTATION HAMBURG H. O. Persiehl, Hamburg. 100 MILLIONEN 100 MILLIONEN |
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Hamburg's Finanzdeputation — the city-state's finance authority — issued its own emergency currency during the hyperinflation peak of 1923, as the Reichsbank simply could no longer supply notes fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. This 100-million-Mark denomination was already obsolete within weeks of printing; by November 1923, even trillion-Mark notes were insufficient for basic transactions.
H. O. Persiehl was a Hamburg commercial printer pressed into monetary service alongside dozens of similar regional firms across Germany that year. Local printing was a logistical necessity, not a design choice.