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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Oberhausen-Rhld. (City of Oberhausen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Oberhausen-Rhld. Hundert-Tausend Mark 100 000 Mark dieser Schein wird von allen städtischen Kassen in Oberhausen-Rhld. in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Ankündigung in den Ortszeitungen. Oberhausen-Rhld., den 19. Juli 1923 der Oberbürgermeister: |
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| Signature(s) | i.V. Lüngrerich (for the Oberbürgermeister) |
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Oberhausen's 100,000 Mark notgeld belongs to the inflationary spiral of early 1923, when municipal authorities across the Rhineland were forced to print emergency currency simply to pay wages before purchasing power evaporated by the following week. The Ruhr occupation — French and Belgian troops had moved in January 1923 to extract reparations in kind — directly accelerated the local collapse of the Reichsmark, making city-issued scrip an operational necessity rather than a stopgap.
The signatory, Lüngrerich, signed in a representative capacity ("i.V." — in Vertretung) for the Oberbürgermeister, which was routine but worth noting: it means the issuing authority was a deputized official, not the mayor himself.