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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinden Böblingen und Sindelfingen (Cities of Böblingen and Sindelfingen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtgemeinden Böblingen und Sindelfingen Stadtkassen-Schein Einhunderttausend Mark zahlen die Stadtpflegen in Böblingen und Sindelfingen dem Einlieferer dieses Kassenscheines Böblingen Sindelfingen Mk. 100000 20. August 1923 Stadtschultheiß Stadtpfleger Für die Kontrolle: Nachahmung oder Fälschung strafbar |
| Reverse description | Printed in black and salmon-pink, the reverse carries a decorative border of stylised Gothic foliate and quatrefoil ornaments framing a central pictorial vignette executed in bold silhouette style. The scene shows a group of figures seated at a long table — rendered entirely in black silhouette — with a standing attendant at the right bearing a large vessel, evoking a Swabian tavern scene. A Swabian dialect verse in Gothic script runs across the upper portion of the central panel, referencing Böblingen and Sindelfingen. |
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This note is a product of the German Notgeld emergency currency system at its most extreme — the hyperinflationary peak of 1923, when municipal and commercial entities were legally permitted to issue their own paper money to compensate for the Reichsbank's inability to supply adequate denominations fast enough. Böblingen and Sindelfingen, two small Württemberg towns geographically intertwined, issued jointly, an arrangement that reflects the administrative logic of a region where resources and infrastructure were already shared.
By the time 100,000 Mark notes like this were being printed, the denomination was losing practical value within weeks of issue.