100 000 000 Mark Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba

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.