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100 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Emmerich (City of Emmerich) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | Urban Schmitz, Emmerich |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed Notgeld on pale paper with a salmon-pink scrollwork underprint and a teal guilloche border. A small circular vignette of a tower appears at centre, above the large Gothic-script denomination. The Bürgermeister's manuscript signature appears at lower right alongside the serial number at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse printed in salmon-pink, entirely covered by a repeating spiral-scroll guilloche pattern forming a double rectangular frame. The numeral 100 000 000 in Gothic script is centred within the inner frame. The serial number appears in mirror-image letterpress at the lower right corner. |
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Emmerich's 100-million Mark note was issued at the absolute peak of Weimar hyperinflation, when the Reichsmark was losing value faster than the Reichsdruckerei could supply emergency currency to municipalities. Städte — cities — across Germany were authorized to print their own Notgeld to cover the gap, and Urban Schmitz, a local Emmerich printer with no particular banknote pedigree, was pressed into service for exactly that reason.
The 100-million denomination places this firmly in the autumn of 1923, before the Rentenmark stabilization of November ended the crisis and rendered these notes worthless almost overnight.