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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Meerane (City of Meerane) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown Notgeld note executed in ornate Fraktur (blackletter) typography throughout, framed by an elaborate scrollwork and foliate border. The issuing legend 'Notgeldschein der Stadt Meerane' runs across the top, with the denomination 'Hunderttausend Mark' set in large bold Fraktur script at centre; the municipal coat of arms vignette occupies the central field. Validity text, the issue date 'Meerane, den 8. Aug. 1923', and facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister and Stadtverordneten-Vorsteher appear in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse lettering | 100 000 Hunderttausend Mark |
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Meerane was a textile manufacturing town in Saxony that, like hundreds of German municipalities in 1923, issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — when the Reichsbank's hyperinflationary spiral made official denominations effectively useless within weeks of printing. The Stadt Meerane authorized this 100,000 Mark note during a period when that sum was losing purchasing power so rapidly that printers could barely keep pace with the demand for new, higher-denomination issues.
Municipal Notgeld of this phase — sometimes called Inflationsnotgeld to distinguish it from the earlier 1914–1922 small-change issues — was legal tender only locally and typically expired within weeks. Meerane printed its own rather than relying on a commercial security printer, which is consistent with the rushed, in-house production characteristic of mid-1923 issues from smaller Saxon towns.