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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Mindelheim |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue-black on cream paper within an ornate cartouche set against a cross-hatched ground, the corners embellished with stylised Alpine flowers and scrolling foliage. A central shield-shaped vignette contains a detailed engraving of a crowned bell, flanked by rectangular panels each bearing the numeral '100000', with the year '1923' at the foot of the vignette. The motto 'NUR EINKLANG GIBT WOHLKLANG' arcs along the upper and lower borders of the cartouche. |
| Reverse lettering | NUR EINKLANG GIBT WOHLKLANG 100000 100000 1923 B |
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| Comments |
Mindelheim is a small Bavarian market town — in a normal monetary environment, its municipal treasury would have had no business issuing currency at all. This 100,000 Mark note is Notgeld, emergency paper produced locally during the hyperinflationary collapse of 1923, when the Reichsbank's output simply could not keep pace with denominations rising faster than presses could print them. Jak. Niederhuber was almost certainly a local job printer, not a banknote specialist, which matters: quality control and paper stock varied widely among provincial printers of this period.
By August 1923, 100,000 Marks bought roughly what a single Mark had bought eighteen months earlier.