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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtrat Straubing (City Council of Straubing) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 Mark (100 000) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note with a dotted rectangular border frame enclosing all design elements. The city arms of Straubing — a shield divided into quarters bearing the Bavarian lozenges and civic symbols, surrounded by the legend 'DER RAT DER STADT STRAUBING' — appear as a vignette to the lower left. The denomination 'Einhunderttausend Mark' is set in large Gothic blackletter type beneath the heading 'Zahlungsanweisung über', with the issue date of 15 August 1923, the issuing authority 'Stadtrat Straubing', and the manuscript signature of the First Mayor (Erster Bürgermeister) occupying the lower right. A large watermark-style underprint of '100000 Mark' runs vertically along the left margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain cream-coloured paper surface. A faint show-through of the dotted border frame from the obverse is visible at the upper edge, and ghost impressions of the obverse text and city arms can be discerned through the paper, consistent with the lightweight stock used for this wartime emergency currency issue. |
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Straubing's municipal emergency currency from the peak inflation period of 1923 — issued by the city council rather than any banking institution, which was entirely typical of German notgeld at this stage of the crisis. By mid-1923, the Reichsbank had effectively ceded day-to-day monetary supply to whoever could print fast enough, and hundreds of German municipalities followed suit. The printer abbreviation "E. B. St." almost certainly refers to a local Straubing press rather than any specialist security printer.
Maily served as Erster Bürgermeister — first mayor — and his signature carries legal authority for the issue. The 100,000 Mark denomination, astronomical by prewar standards, would have purchased little by the time these notes actually reached circulation.