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100 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Chemnitz |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 130 x 79 mm |
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| Obverse description | Pink guilloche underprint with a geometric pattern of rosettes and squares covers the entire field, within a dark olive-green ornamental border. The denomination "Hundert Millionen Mark" is printed in large Fraktur blackletter at centre, with the issuing authority text above and two manuscript signatures below. A vignette of the Bezirkskrankenhaus Rabenstein occupies the lower centre, flanked by the numeral value "100000000" on each side. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein no Der Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Chemnitz zahlt gegen Rückgabe dieses Gutscheines Hundert Millionen Mark Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach erfolgtem Aufruf in den Chemnitzer Blättern Chemnitz, den 24. August 1923. Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Chemnitz. Amtshauptmann. Bezirkskassierer. 100000000 Mark (Translation: Voucher no The district association of the Amtshauptmannschaft Chemnitz will pay upon the return of this voucher One hundred million marks It loses its validity one month after being announced in the Chemnitz papers Chemnitz, August 24, 1923. District association of the Amtshauptmannschaft Chemnitz. Amtshauptmann. District cashier. 100000000 Mark) |
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One of dozens of Notgeld authorities that scrambled to issue high-denomination emergency currency during the hyperinflation peak of late 1923, the Amtshauptmannschaft Chemnitz — the administrative district authority, not the city of Chemnitz itself — had legal standing to issue such notes under the decentralized emergency currency framework the Weimar government was forced to tolerate. By the time a 100-million-Mark note was necessary for daily transactions, the Reichsmark was losing value faster than notes could be printed and distributed.
District-level Notgeld from this period was typically printed locally on short runs, often on whatever paper stock was available.