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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Haan (City of Haan) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 Mark (100 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Haan Hunderttausend Mark zahlt die Gartenstadt Haan gegen diesen Schein dem Einlieferer. Dieser Gutschein wird von allen Kassen der Stadtgemeinde Haan eingelöst, er verliert seine Gültigkeit nach Aufkündigung in den Haaner Zeitungen. Haan, den 5. Aug. 1923 Der Bürgermeister: Offsatdruck Schreiber & Fey, Foche-Solingen. |
| Reverse description | Printed in violet-purple, the reverse carries a full-width letterpress vignette divided into two street-scene panels: the left panel shows a row of multi-storey bourgeois townhouses lining a cobbled street with two pedestrian figures in the foreground and mature trees behind; the right panel continues the scene with a tree-lined avenue enclosed by an iron fence and gate. Above the double vignette, two columns of Fraktur verse form a rhyming couplet lamenting the necessity of emergency currency and anticipating its withdrawal once peace and harmony are restored. |
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Haan is a small town in the Bergisches Land district of North Rhine-Westphalia, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1923, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — when hyperinflation made Reichsbank notes functionally worthless faster than they could be distributed. The 100,000 Mark denomination, staggering by any prewar measure, was already losing purchasing power within days of issue by mid-1923.
Printing was handled locally by Offsetdruck Schreiber & Fey in nearby Solingen, a practical choice during a period when transport delays alone could render a note's face value obsolete before delivery.