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100 000 000 Mark Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba
| Issuer | Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba, Steinkohlenbergwerk Hückelhoven |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 000 Mark (100 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein Gewerkschaft Sophia Jacoba, Hückelhoven 100 Millionen Hundert Millionen Mark zahlt dem Einlieferer gegen diesen Gutschein die Hauptkasse der Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba, Steinkohlenbergwerk in Hückelhoven. Der Zeitpunkt der Einlösung wird bekannt gemacht. Hückelhoven, den 31. August 1923 Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark red-brown and centres on a large diamond-shaped guilloche vignette containing a monumental figure of a miner wearing a cap with crossed-hammer badge, shouldering a tool, set against a scrollwork underprint background; below the figure, a smaller scene depicts the colliery yard with workers and industrial equipment. Two ornate oval medallions flank the central vignette — the left bearing the interlaced monogram 'SJ' and the right a crossed-hammers emblem — both set within elaborate foliate frames. The issuer's name 'Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba, Hückelhoven' appears in Gothic letterpress at both the top and bottom of the note, with the printer's imprint 'Schött A.G. Rheydt' in small type at the foot. |
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Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba was the mining cooperative operating the Sophia-Jacoba colliery at Hückelhoven in the Rhineland — a working coal mine that, like hundreds of German industrial employers in late 1923, was forced to print its own emergency currency simply to meet weekly payroll. By the time this hundred-million-mark denomination was necessary, the figure was barely enough to cover a tram fare. Hermann Schött A.G. in Rheydt was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist banknote house, which is consistent with the utilitarian production quality typical of late-hyperinflation Notgeld from this district.