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100 000 000 Mark Süchteln
| Issuer | Stadt Süchteln (Städtische Sparkasse Süchteln) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper ground with a pale salmon-pink ornamental guilloche underprint of repeating floral and foliate motifs covering the entire field. The denomination numeral 'M 100.000.000' is typeset in bold Gothic script at upper right, with the serial prefix 'A Nr.' and number at upper left. The body of the note carries a letterpress text in German blackletter and Roman typefaces, instructing the Städtische Sparkasse Süchteln to pay the bearer on demand. The large denomination legend 'EINHUNDERT MILLIONEN' is printed in bold block capitals across the lower half, flanked by the place and date 'Süchteln, den 18. Sept. 1923' at lower left and the issuing authority 'Stadt Süchteln, Der Bürgermeister:' at lower right, accompanied by a violet circular official stamp and a manuscript signature. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is essentially unprinted, consisting of plain cream-coloured paper. The obverse letterpress text shows through as a faint mirror image, a characteristic of the thin single-sided stock used for this emergency currency. The applied official stamp and manuscript signature visible on the obverse are similarly discernible in reverse through the paper, consistent with post-printing hand-application of those elements. |
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Süchteln was a small textile town in the Rhineland, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in late 1923, its savings bank was pressed into issuing emergency currency because the Reichsbank simply could not print fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation. The 100,000,000 Mark denomination — unimaginable just two years earlier — was already losing purchasing power within days of issue. Many of these Notgeld pieces were printed on whatever stock was available locally, and the quality varied accordingly.
The stabilization of the currency in November 1923 rendered the entire series worthless almost immediately after printing.