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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Pirmasens (City of Pirmasens) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | * Stadtgemeinde Pirmasens * 100,000 Mk. Gutschein über Hunderttausend Mark Bürgermeisteramt: Reihe R No 019004 Pirmasens, 5. September 1923. Der Zeitpunkt der Einlösung wird öffentlich bekanntgegeben. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing only the faint blind offset of the obverse letterpress typography through the thin paper stock, with no additional design, vignette, or text applied. |
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Pirmasens in 1923 was a shoe-manufacturing town caught in the same inflationary collapse as every other German municipality that summer. This note is Notgeld — emergency currency issued by the city government when Reichsbank denominations became inadequate faster than Berlin could print replacements. By the time 100,000-Mark notes were circulating, they represented perhaps a day's wages, if that.
Local printing at this scale meant no intaglio, no sophisticated anti-counterfeiting. The official seal was the only security measure the city could credibly apply, and it served more as an administrative legitimizing stamp than a genuine deterrent.