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100 000 000 Mark Birkenfelder Landesbank
| Issuer | Bank für das Nahetal A.G. (Birkenfelder Landesbank) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 000 Mark (100 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Uniface letterpress note printed on firm, smooth white paper in light brown ink over a green underprint. The text is entirely typeset, consisting of a lengthy instruction legend in German Gothic script, with the issuer name and place-date line centred near the foot of the note. A five-digit serial number in black appears without prefix, a horizontal oval embossed dry seal is applied at the lower left, and a handwritten autograph signature in blue-green ink (Wagner) appears below the issuer line. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Birkenfelder Landesbank was a regional institution serving the former Principality of Birkenfeld, a Prussian exclave nestled within Oldenburg territory along the Nahe valley. By August–September 1923, when hyperinflation had rendered Reichsbank supply wholly inadequate, hundreds of German municipalities and private banks were authorized to issue Notgeld to meet payroll demands. This 100-million-Mark note was among that emergency output — a denomination that would have seemed grotesque eighteen months earlier.
The watermark security feature is worth noting for authentication: paper stock varied considerably across regional emergency issues, and forged Notgeld, while uncommon, does exist for the more visually distinctive pieces of this period.