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100 000 000 Mark Landkreis Bochum
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Landkreises Bochum |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 124 × 85 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red and black on plain paper, the obverse carries a bold black banner at top with the issuer inscription 'LANDKREIS BOCHUM' in capital letters. The denomination 'Hundert Millionen Mark' is set within a large dark oval vignette with radiating sunburst lines, rendered in decorative Fraktur script. Below, a two-line text in Gothic typeface states the payment obligation, followed by the date 'Bochum, den 25. September 1923', two manuscript signatures with printed titles 'Landrat' and 'Mitglieder', and a serial number with letter prefix at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red and grey on plain paper, with a large central architectural vignette of a multi-towered Historicist civic building, likely the Bochum district administrative building, rendered in a bold letterpress style. The denomination '100 Millo-Mark' is repeated in large black numerals in both upper corners. A two-line notice in Gothic script runs along the lower margin, stating the note's issuance with the approval of the Reichsminister der Finanzen and its validity terms. |
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One of hundreds of emergency currency issues flooding the Ruhr district in mid-1923, this note emerged from the administrative district surrounding Bochum — not the city itself, which issued its own separate Notgeld series. The Landkreis, the rural county authority, was printing its own denominations because the central Reichsbank supply had simply collapsed under the pace of hyperinflation. By the time a 100-million-mark note was being issued locally, the denomination was already losing practical value within weeks of printing.
The Ruhr occupation by French and Belgian forces, ongoing since January 1923, had severed normal economic supply chains and accelerated the regional proliferation of local paper. Kreisausschuss issues like this one tend to survive in higher quantities than their urban counterparts — county offices retained stocks rather than circulating them aggressively.