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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Annweiler (City of Annweiler) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed Notgeld voucher on salmon-pink paper, enclosed within a decorative green scrollwork and interlaced guilloche border. The denomination '100 000 Mark' is set in large bold type at centre, above the issue date and place 'Annweiler (Pfalz), den 23. August 1923', with signature lines for the Bürgermeister and Stadteinnehmer in the lower portion. A stamped serial number and two manuscript ink signatures complete the obverse. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadtgemeinde Annweiler über 100000 Mark Annweiler (Pfalz), den 23. August 1923 Der Bürgermeister Der Stadteinnehmer |
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Annweiler am Trifels, a small Palatinate town better known for the ruins of Trifels Castle above it — where Richard I of England was briefly held captive in 1193 — issued this note during the Weimar hyperinflation peak. Municipal authorities across Germany were legally empowered to issue Notgeld when Reichsbank supply could not keep pace with inflation; by mid-1923, 100,000 Mark was a denomination that had become routine within weeks of seeming astronomical.
The Stadtgemeinde series from this period was not redeemable through the Reichsbank but only against the issuing municipality's own guarantee — a guarantee worth progressively less each day the notes remained unspent.