100 000 000 Mark

This note belongs to the vast apparatus of German municipal emergency money (Notgeld) issued during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsmark was collapsing so rapidly that local administrations — not banks — had to print their own denominations to keep commercial life functioning. By late 1923, a hundred million marks would barely cover a tram fare. The joint issuance across six administrative districts (Kreise) in the Prussian Rhine Province was a practical response to the sheer scale of demand; no single district office had the capacity to manage it alone.

The DeNG reference places this within the specialized German Notgeld cataloguing system. Stolberg and Eschweiler were both heavily industrial — zinc and copper works — which made local liquidity failures there particularly damaging to regional supply chains.