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100 000 000 Mark Verein der Bergwerke am Linken Niederrhein
| Issuer | Verein der Bergwerke am linken Niederrhein e.V., Moers |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 129 x 89 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Hundert Millionen Mark Die Kassen der Steinkohlenbergwerke Rheinpreussen-Homberg, Friedrich Heinrich-Lintfort, Diergardt-Hochemmerich, Wilhelmine Mevissen-Bergheim, Niederrheinische Bergwerks-A.G.-Neukirchen zahlen dem Einlieferer dieses Gutscheines Hundert Millionen Mark Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufruf in den Tageszeitungen des Kreises Moers Verein der Bergwerke am linken Niederrhein e.V. Moers, 4.9.1923 Der Vorsitzende: 100.000.000 DECOR CAMPI FLOREAT |
| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in dark blue on cream paper by Schött A.G. of Rheydt, is dominated by a central architectural vignette of Kloster Kamp (Camp Abbey), a Cistercian monastery in Kamp-Lintfort, rendered in fine letterpress line work with twin onion-domed towers flanking the baroque facade. The denomination 'Hundert Millionen Mark' is set in a decorative Fraktur scroll banner across the top, while numeral '100' appears within ornamental rosette cartouches at both lower corners. Below the abbey vignette the caption 'Kloster-Camp' and the commemorative date range '1123 – 1923' mark the 800th anniversary of the monastery's foundation, with a faint circular cancel stamp visible at lower right. |
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Verein der Bergwerke am linken Niederrhein — the Association of Collieries on the Left Lower Rhine — issued this 100-million-mark note during the hyperinflation peak of late 1923, when denominations were doubling weekly and municipal and industrial bodies throughout the Ruhr were printing their own emergency currency simply to meet payroll. Notgeld at this scale wasn't symbolic; it was functional necessity.
Schött A.G. in Rheydt was a regional commercial printer pressed into emergency monetary work alongside dozens of similar firms that year. The embossed seal was the issuer's primary authentication device — relatively easy to forge by 1923 standards, but sufficient given that these notes were designed to circulate for days rather than weeks before losing practical value.