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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Lüdenscheid (City of Lüdenscheid, Prussian Province of Westphalia) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 125 × 75 mm |
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| Obverse description | Pale blue-grey letterpress note with a fine guilloche underprint forming the overall background. At upper centre, the city arms of Lüdenscheid — a crenellated tower gateway surmounted by a mailed figure — is set within an oval vignette flanked by oak-leaf sprays, with the issuer legend STADT LÜDENSCHEID to its right. The denomination 100 000 MARK appears in bold numerals above, and a large decorative banner scroll carries the words Hunderttausend Mark across the centre of the note. The serial number in red and the date Lüdenscheid, den 11. August 1923 appear respectively at upper left and lower left, alongside two manuscript signatures for Der Magistrat; the anti-counterfeiting warning is printed vertically along the left margin, and 100 000 MARK is overprinted vertically in red on the right border. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Lüdenscheid Hunderttausend Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von allen städtischen und anderen öffentlichen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Der Zeitpunkt der Einlösung wird in den hiesigen Ortsblättern bekannt gemacht. Die Stadtgemeinde Lüdenscheid haftet für die Einlösung. Lüdenscheid, den 11. August 1923 Der Magistrat Wer Notgeld nachmacht oder verfälscht oder nachgemachtes oder verfälschtes sich verschafft oder in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus bestraft. 100 000 MARK (Translation: City of Lüdenscheid / One Hundred Thousand Marks / This voucher is accepted in payment by all municipal and other public cash offices. The time of redemption will be announced in the local newspapers. The municipality of Lüdenscheid is liable for the redemption. / Lüdenscheid, 11 August 1923 / The Magistrate / Whoever counterfeits or falsifies emergency money, or procures or circulates counterfeited or falsified emergency money, shall be punished with imprisonment. / 100 000 MARK) |
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Lüdenscheid was a mid-sized Westphalian industrial town — metalworking, buttons, buckles — and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1923, it issued its own emergency currency when hyperinflation made Reichsbank supply chronically inadequate. The 100,000 Mark denomination places this squarely in the summer-to-early-autumn phase of the crisis, before the denominations spiraled into the billions and trillions that autumn.
Carl v. d. Linnepe was a local printer, not a specialist banknote house. That matters: the production quality of municipal Notgeld varied enormously depending on whether a town could access a security printer, and Lüdenscheid evidently used whoever was available locally.