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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Plauen (City of Plauen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed in olive-green and black letterpress, set within a decorative guilloche border of interlocking geometric and floral motifs. The word GUTSCHEIN appears at the top, followed by the denomination EINHUNDERTTAUSEND MARK in large bold capitals at centre; below, a text clause states redeemability at the municipal treasury of Plauen i. V. The date Plauen, den 7. September 1923 and the issuing authority DER RAT DER STADT PLAUEN appear in the lower portion, above two manuscript signatures over the printed titles Oberbürgermeister and Stadtkämmerer. |
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| Protection description | Intricate olive-green guilloche pattern of interlocking geometric and floral lattice work printed across both faces as an anti-counterfeiting underprint. |
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Plauen's municipal emergency currency — Notgeld — places this note squarely within the hyperinflationary collapse of mid-1923, when the Reichsbank could not supply denominations large enough for everyday transactions fast enough. Cities, towns, and even private firms were legally permitted to fill the gap. At 100,000 Mark, this represents a mid-range denomination for its moment; within weeks of comparable issues, the required figures would climb to millions, then billions.
The guilloche underprint is the one concession to anti-counterfeiting discipline — locally printed Notgeld varied enormously in production quality, and Plauen's examples are no exception.