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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Hamborn am Rhein (City of Hamborn) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned notgeld on plain paper with a fine guilloche underprint filling the central field. The city arms of Hamborn — a crenellated tower above a lion passant — appear in a vignette at upper left, while the denomination numeral '100000' is set within a scrolled ribbon banner at centre. Below, the value legend in bold Fraktur script is enclosed within an ornate cartouche, followed by three lines of redemption text in smaller Fraktur, the date '2. November 1922', the authority line 'Der Oberbürgermeister', and a manuscript signature. A red serial prefix letter and number are printed at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | Stadt Hamborn am Rhein 100000 Hunderttausend Mark |
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Hamborn was an independent industrial city in the Ruhr when this note was issued — it would not be absorbed into the newly created city of Duisburg until 1929. Like most municipal emergency currency of the 1922 hyperinflation spiral, this Notgeld issue was a practical stopgap: the Reichsbank simply could not print and distribute denominations fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power, forcing cities, towns, and even individual firms to fill the void themselves.
Thyssendruck was the in-house printing operation of the Thyssen steel concern, one of the dominant industrial employers in Hamborn. The city and the company were effectively inseparable — the workforce, the housing, the infrastructure.