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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtbank Spremberg |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 Mark (100 000) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is the mirror impression of the obverse, showing the text and design elements printed through from the face side, as is typical of single-sided Notgeld issues of the German inflation period. The circular municipal seal of the City of Spremberg (Lausitz) is visible at the lower right, and the two authorising signatures appear at the centre-lower area. |
| Reverse lettering | Spremberger Stadtbanknote Hunderttausend Mark Stadtbank Spremberg Siegel der Stadt Spremberg (Lausitz) |
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Stadtbank Spremberg was one of hundreds of municipal savings institutions that issued emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank could not print fast enough to meet demand. Local printers were pressed into service across Germany, and Zum Gleich — a Spremberg firm with no specialized banknote printing background — produced this note for its own town's bank.
The watermarked paper is worth noting: many Notgeld issues of this period used plain commercial stock, so the presence of a watermark here suggests some attempt at security, however modest, against counterfeiting at a denomination that would itself be obsolete within weeks.