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100 000 Mark

Issuer Haan, City of
Year 1923
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Value 100 000 Mark (100 000)
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Obverse description The face is dominated by the large numerical denomination '100,000' set within wide decorative ovals at top and bottom, framing a central text block bearing the issuing authority and denomination in words. A vertical serial number is printed in the right margin.
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Reverse description The reverse carries a central vignette of a couple standing on a cobblestone street before a building bearing the inscription 'ANNO 1728', flanked on the left and right by patriotic text in a typeset letterpress layout.
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Haan is a small town in the Bergisches Land, administratively part of what is now the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis. Like hundreds of German municipalities in 1923, it was forced into emergency currency issuance — Notgeld — not by any civic ambition but by the practical collapse of the Reichsbank's ability to supply denominations fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation. The 100,000 Mark figure, which would have seemed extraordinary a year earlier, was already marginal by mid-1923.

Walter Schreiber & Fey printed for numerous Bergisches Land municipalities during this period, operating out of Solingen.

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