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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Sonneberg, City of Sonneberg (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 Mark (100 000) |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset Notgeld voucher on cream paper, enclosed within a dark blue ruled border with a dense dash pattern along all four edges. A pale blue underprint of repeated text reading 'KREIS- UND STADT SONNEBERG 100000 MARK' fills the centre field. The denomination 'Einhunderttausend Mark' is printed in large red letters across the middle, with '100000' in bold dark blue at upper left and right flanking the word 'Gutschein'; below, a text block in black letterpress states the obligation of the Stadtkasse Sonneberg i. Thür. to pay the bearer, the issue date of 11. August 1923, the series designation 'Serie A' in red at left, and four manuscript official signatures above their printed role titles at the foot. A vertical anti-counterfeiting warning text in small print runs along the right margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 100000 Gutschein 100000 Einhunderttausend Mark zahlt die Stadtkasse Sonneberg i. Thür. dem Überbringer dieses Gutscheines Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit als Zahlungsmittel zwei Wochen nach Bekanntmachung Serie A Sonneberg i. Thür., den 11. August 1923 Der Gemeindevorsteher: Der Gemeinderat: Der Kreisdirektor: Der Kreisrat: Banknoten nachmacht oder verfälscht oder nachmachte oder verfälschte sich nicht unter zwei Jahren bringt wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter zwei Jahren |
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Sonneberg was a center of toy and glass manufacturing in Thuringia, and by mid-1923 the municipal treasury — the Stadtkasse — was doing what hundreds of German towns were forced to do: issuing emergency currency because Reichsbank notes couldn't reach circulation fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation. This Notgeld at 100,000 Mark represents the phase when values that would have seemed absurd eighteen months earlier had become routine denominational necessity.
Municipal issues from smaller Thuringian towns are frequently underdocumented. Sonneberg's 1923 emergency issues were purely functional — no collector-oriented Serienscheine pretensions here.