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| Uitgever | Stadt Lahr i/B (City of Lahr, Baden) |
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| Jaar | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | STADT LAHR i/B 100 Millionen Gutschein über 100 Millionen Mark Lahr i/B, den 10. Oktober 1923 Der Oberbürgermeister: Der Stadtrechner: |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | STADTVERRECHNUNG LAHR (Baden) |
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| Opmerkingen |
Lahr's 100-million Mark note dates to the peak of the German hyperinflation, a period in which municipal and commercial entities across the country were legally permitted — indeed, effectively compelled — to issue their own emergency currency, or Notgeld, because the Reichsbank simply could not print and distribute sufficient legal tender fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. By August and September 1923, denominations that had seemed absurd only weeks earlier were already obsolete on arrival.
Lahr was a mid-sized Baden textile and printing town, and this note was almost certainly produced locally — the regional printing infrastructure was well developed. The 100-million Mark face value, unthinkable a year prior, was itself overtaken by billion- and trillion-Mark issues within weeks of this note's release.