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100 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Crefeld (City of Krefeld) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | Wilhelm Wefers, Crefeld, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT Hundert Millionen Mark zahlt die Stadt Crefeld dem Vorzolger. Der Zeitpunkt der Einlösung wird durch die Crefelder Tageszeitungen bekannt gemacht. Der Oberbürgermeister · Crefeld, den 14. September 1923 CREFELD 100.000.000 WILHELM WEFERS, CREFELD |
| Reverse description | Pink guilloche underprint covers the entire field, with a central engraved vignette set within a ruled rectangular frame showing a seated female figure surrounded by billowing silk fabric, an allegory of Crefeld's silk-weaving industry. The inscription 'NOTGELD DER SAMT. U. SEIDENSTADT CREFELD 1923' arcs around the figure within the vignette. Series designation 'REIHE U' appears vertically at the left margin, and a serial number is printed vertically at the right margin. The denomination 'Hundert Millionen' is inscribed in large Fraktur type along the lower margin, with '100.000.000' in bold numerals at the top. |
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Krefeld's municipal administration issued this 100-million-Mark note at the absolute peak of Weimar hyperinflation — by late 1923, denominations like this were being spent within hours of issue before prices moved again. Local authorities across Germany were printing their own Notgeld simply because the Reichsbank could not supply currency fast enough to meet daily transactional demand.
Wilhelm Wefers was a local Krefeld printer, not a specialized security press. That matters: municipal notes from this period vary considerably in paper quality and impression consistency, and the Wefers examples are no exception.