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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Essen (City of Essen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 Mark (100 000) |
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| Obverse description | Typographically printed Notgeld note in brown tones on cream paper, with a fine guilloche underprint forming the central field. The large denomination numeral '100000' appears in bold at the top of the central panel, below which the value is spelled out in blackletter script as 'Hunderttausend Mark'. Flanking cartouches at left and right each bear the numeral '100', and a redemption clause in Gothic type states that the City of Essen will pay the bearer one month after a public call in the Essener Tageszeitungen, with the date 'Essen am 26.7.1923', a facsimile signature of the Oberbürgermeister, and a green handwritten serial number at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADT ESSEN HUNDERTTAUSEND MARK 100000 100 |
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Essen's 100,000 Mark note belongs to the Notgeld emergency currency wave that swept German municipalities in 1923, when Reichsbank printing simply could not keep pace with hyperinflation. Cities, towns, and even private firms were legally permitted — then practically compelled — to issue their own emergency denominations. Essen, as the industrial heart of the Ruhr, was simultaneously under French and Belgian military occupation at the time of issue, a factor that complicated both commerce and the logistics of local currency distribution.
The Ruhr occupation began January 1923. This denomination, enormous by pre-war standards, was already obsolete within weeks of printing.