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100 000 000 Mark Hennef
| Issuer | Bürgermeisterei Hennef (Sieg) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 000 Marks (100 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | EIN HUNDERT MILLIONEN MARK M. 100 Millionen Einhundert Millionen Mark. Dieser Gutschein wird von der Sparkasse der Bürgermeisterei Hennef und der Gemeindekasse in Hennef in Zahlung genommen. Er behält seine Gültigkeit bis zur Aufkündigung in den für die Veröffentlichung der amtlichen Bekanntmachungen der Bürgermeisterei Hennef bestimmten Zeitungen Hennef (Sieg), 20. September 1923 Der Bürgermeister I. V. Beigeordneter Serie E BÜRGERMEISTERAMT HENNEF (SIEG) HENNEF |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in green and carries a finely executed letterpress landscape vignette occupying virtually the full note surface, showing a panoramic view of Blankenberg bei Hennef (Sieg) with the ruined hilltop castle in the middle distance, a wooded hillside, and half-timbered village buildings in the foreground. The caption BLANKENBERG BEI HENNEF (SIEG) is set in small capitals at lower right, the printer's imprint RHENIA-DRUCKEREI BONN appears at lower left, and the issuer name BÜRGERMEISTEREI HENNEF (SIEG) is printed vertically along both side margins. |
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Hennef an der Sieg was a small Rhineland municipality with no particular claim to monetary history until the hyperinflation of 1923 forced local authorities across Germany to issue their own emergency currency — Notgeld — simply to keep wages and transactions moving as Reichsbank notes became worthless faster than they could be printed. By August 1923, one hundred million marks was roughly the price of a loaf of bread.
The Rhenia-Druckerei in Bonn supplied notes to numerous small Rhenish issuers during this period, which occasionally creates attribution confusion in collections when issuer overprints are faint or absent.