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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Ahrweiler |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 Mark (100 000) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld voucher printed in dark green and purple on cream paper, enclosed within an ornate purple letterpress border with stylized foliate and geometric corner panels. The denomination "Hunderttausend Mark" is set in a large blackletter typeface at centre, above which appear the series letter "J", the legend "Gutschein über" and the numeral "100000" in the upper margin. The lower portion carries a five-line redemption text in Fraktur script, the issue date "Ahrweiler, den 5. Juli 1923", two small circular official stamps bearing an eagle device, the issuing authority line "Der Kreisausschuss des Kreises Ahrweiler", and multiple manuscript committee signatures below. |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie J Gutschein über 100000 Hunderttausend Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von der Kreissparkasse Ahrweiler bzw. deren Zweigstellen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit nach entsprechender Bekanntmachung in den Zeitungen des Kreises. Der Kreis Ahrweiler haftet für die Einlösung. Ahrweiler, den 5. Juli 1923. Der Kreisausschuß des Kreises Ahrweiler |
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Ahrweiler Kreis notgeld at this denomination belongs to the hyperinflation peak of mid-1923, when municipal and county administrations across Germany were authorised to print emergency currency simply because the Reichsbank could not supply sufficient physical notes fast enough to keep pace with price collapse. The Kreisausschuss — the county executive committee — was not a bank; issuing paper money was entirely outside its normal administrative function.
B. Blachner was a local Ahrweiler printer, not a specialist currency firm. That shows in the production values typical of provincial notgeld at this level.