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100 000 000 Mark Thüringische Staatsbank, Series D - blue
| Issuer | Thüringische Staatsbank (Thuringian State Bank) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 140 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on pale cream paper with a blue guilloche underprint of horizontal ruled bands across the upper portion. The large numeral '100 000 000' appears in bold Gothic typeface at the top within the guilloche field, below which the denomination 'Einhundert Millionen Mark' is set in a heavy blackletter script between two bold horizontal rules. The lower section carries the Thuringian state coat of arms at lower left — a shield bearing a stylized six-petalled rose motif — flanked by a fine repeating numeral underprint; the place and date 'Weimar, den 9. August 1923' and the issuing authority 'Die Landesregierung' appear in Gothic script above two manuscript facsimile signatures, with a vertical column of anti-counterfeiting legal text printed sideways along the right margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Serie D Notgeld des Landes Thüringen ✦ Einhundert Millionen Mark 100000000 |
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Thüringische Staatsbank was one of dozens of regional German institutions authorized to issue emergency Notgeld during the hyperinflation crisis of 1923, when the Reichsbank could not physically print fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. By the time 100-million-Mark denominations were circulating, that sum was worth less than a loaf of bread — the denomination itself a marker of how rapidly the situation was deteriorating in the summer and autumn of that year.
The Series D blue designation distinguishes this from parallel issues in other colors, a practice adopted to manage successive print runs without redesigning the note entirely. Weimar, as the bank's home city, handled production locally rather than contracting to one of the major Leipzig or Berlin printers.