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100 000 000 Mark Steinkohlenbergwerk Gewerkschaft Neumühl
| Issuer | Steinkohlenbergwerk Gewerkschaft Neumühl, Hamborn |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 162 x 85 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark blue-black on a pale ground, with a fine guilloche underprint incorporating squared lattice panels and the denomination numeral '100' repeated in the four quadrants. The central text field carries the cursive script heading 'Gutschein über' above the large bold letterpress legend 'Hundert Millionen Mark', followed by the payment clause and the issuer's name in italic script. Two crossed-hammer mining vignettes flank the lower portion of the note, and two manuscript signatures appear beneath the legend 'Die Verwaltung:', all enclosed within an ornate typographic border of repeating geometric ornaments. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a two-colour scheme of grey-blue underprint and green overprint, enclosed within the same repeating geometric typographic border as the obverse. A central rectangular vignette in grey-blue intaglio-style letterpress depicts an allegorical reclining figure alongside an industrial landscape with colliery headframes, overlaid in green script with the issuer's full name in three lines. The large denomination '100' appears at the top centre flanked by two small armorial medallions, with 'Millionen' in bold grey below the vignette; the serial number and series designation 'SERIE X Nr.' are printed in green at the right margin. |
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Hamborn's coal mining cooperative — the Gewerkschaft Neumühl — issued this 100-Million-Mark note during the Ruhr occupation crisis of 1923, when French and Belgian forces had severed the region's industrial economy from the wider German financial system. Notgeld of this type wasn't decorative; it was functional emergency scrip issued by collieries and heavy industry to pay workers when Reichsbank currency was either unavailable or depreciating faster than it could be transported.
Hamborn itself was annexed into Duisburg in 1929, which means the issuing municipality no longer exists as an administrative entity.