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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreis Moers (District of Moers) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown ink on a pale ochre underprint and is dominated by a large bold Fraktur vignette reading "Hunderttausend Mark" over the issuer name "Kreis Moers" at centre. A rectangular border composed of repeated letterpress denomination inscriptions frames the entire face, with ornate Germanic calligraphic flourishes flanking the central text. Below the denomination vignette, a multi-line text block states the payment and validity conditions, dated Moers, den 15. Juli 1923, alongside a circular official seal of the Landrat des Kreises Moers and a manuscript signature of the Landrat at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | HUNDERTTAUSEND MARK · KREIS MOERS · HUNDERTTAUSEND MARK Kreis Moers Hunderttausend Mark Zahlbar bei sämtlichen kommunalen Kassen im Kreise Moers. Gültig noch 6 Monate nach erfolgter Aufkündigung in den im Kreise Moers erscheinenden Zeitungen. Moers, den 15. Juli 1923. Der Landrat: Ausgefertigt mit Genehmigung des Reichsfinanzministeriums. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf |
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Kreis Moers issued this note during the hyperinflation peak of 1923, when German municipal and district authorities were legally permitted — and practically forced — to print their own emergency currency (Notgeld) to meet payroll and daily commerce demands. The Reichsbank simply could not supply enough physical notes fast enough as denominations spiraled upward. L. Schwann in Düsseldorf was a well-established printing and publishing house, not a specialist banknote printer, which was entirely typical for third-tier Notgeld contracts at this stage of the crisis.
By mid-1923, a 100,000 Mark note was worth only a fraction of what a 1,000 Mark note had purchased twelve months earlier. Most Kreis-level issues circulated briefly before being superseded by higher denominations within weeks.