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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Wiesdorf (City of Wiesdorf) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 Mark (100 000) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in olive-green on cream paper, enclosed within a dotted decorative border with the denomination and issuer name repeated along all four margins. The central text renders the denomination in large Gothic blackletter script — 'Hunderttausend Mark' — set over a circular guilloche underprint rosette. Below, a three-line redemption clause in Roman type states the note's validity conditions, with the date 'WIESDORF, den 1. August 1923' at lower left and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-green on cream paper, dominated by a large central guilloche vignette enclosing the municipal coat of arms of Wiesdorf — a quartered shield bearing a rampant lion above and a boat on water below — surrounded by an elaborate lathe-work rosette with wavy-line underprint bands extending horizontally across the full width. The inscription 'STADT WIESDORF' arches above the central vignette and '100000 MARK' curves below in bold capitals. |
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Wiesdorf was a small industrial town on the Rhine, best known as the site of the Bayer chemical works, and its Notgeld issues of 1923 reflect the chaotic municipal scramble to keep workers paid as hyperinflation rendered Reichsbank notes obsolete almost the moment they were printed. At 100,000 Mark, this denomination — extraordinary by any peacetime standard — was already worth a trivial sum by mid-1923; within weeks of issue, million-mark notes were the new floor.
M. DuMont Schauberg in Cologne was a major regional press house, and their involvement here was purely commercial — they printed emergency currency for dozens of Rhineland municipalities simultaneously during this period. Dr. Claes signed as Bürgermeister, a legal requirement giving the note municipal backing, however notional.