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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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| Printer | Hermann Schött A.G., Rheydt, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark purple-brown on pale paper, the obverse carries a central panoramic vignette of the Sophia-Jacoba colliery at Hückelhoven, showing pithead winding towers, industrial buildings, and workers' housing across the full width of the note. The denomination '100 Millionen' appears in oval panels at upper left and right, flanked by ornamental rosette underprints, with the issuer's name 'Gewerkschaft Sophia Jacoba, Hückelhoven' in Gothic script at the top beneath the bold header 'Gutschein'. Below the vignette, the denomination 'Hundert Millionen Mark' is set in large decorative Gothic lettering, followed by redemption text, the place and date 'Hückelhoven, den 31. August 1923', the issuer's stamp, and two manuscript signatures with a printed serial number and letter suffix. |
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| 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.