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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Helmbrechts (City Treasury of Helmbrechts) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 Mark (100 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | 100'000 100'000 Einhunderttausend Mark zahlt die Stadtkasse Helmbrechts dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines Helmbrechts, 15. August 1923 Der Bürgermeister für den Stadtrat W. Saalfrank, Helmbrechts |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in purple on pale paper and divided into two panels within a double-line border. The left panel carries a photographic vignette of a textile worker at a loom inside a weaving workshop, a reference to Helmbrechts' local textile industry. The right panel bears the denomination '100'000 Mark' in bold gothic blackletter type, overlaid on a faint circular municipal seal underprint, with the serial number printed in red above. |
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Helmbrechts is a small textile-manufacturing town in Upper Franconia, Bavaria — not the sort of place that would normally issue its own currency. But during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank could not print fast enough to meet demand, thousands of German municipalities, businesses, and utilities issued their own emergency notes, a phenomenon known as Notgeld. The Stadtkasse here acted out of practical necessity: without locally printed scrip, commerce would simply have stopped.
W. Saalfrank was a local printer, not a specialist banknote firm. That matters — quality control and paper stock varied considerably among such provincial producers, and notes from this class of issuer tend to show uneven inking.