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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtverwaltung Crimmitschau (City of Crimmitschau) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 Mark (100 000) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown and salmon-orange, with an intricate lattice and geometric guilloche underprint filling the entire field. The denomination 'Einhunderttausend Mark' is set in a large, bold Gothic Fraktur script across the centre of the note. At the top, a two-line anti-counterfeiting warning text appears in small Fraktur script, and a printed serial number preceded by 'Nr' is positioned at the lower centre. |
| Reverse lettering | Wer Gutscheine nachmacht oder verfälscht oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter zwei Jahren bestraft. Einhunderttausend Mark Nr |
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Crimmitschau, a textile manufacturing town in Saxony, issued emergency currency throughout the hyperinflation period as the Reichsbank's supply of legal tender simply could not keep pace with the collapsing purchasing power of the Mark. By mid-1923, municipal and corporate notgeld in six-figure denominations had become a routine administrative necessity rather than an extraordinary measure. The 100,000 Mark note arrived at a point when that sum bought roughly what a few pfennigs had purchased two years earlier.
Crimmitschau had prior form with labor unrest — the 1903 textile workers' strike there was one of the longest in German imperial history. Whether that industrial memory shaped local attitudes toward the monetary chaos of 1923 is unrecorded.