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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Oelsnitz i. V. |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 Mark (100 000) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed in black letterpress throughout, with a decorative border of oak leaves and acorns enclosing the entire face. The denomination '100 000 Mark' is set in large blackletter (Fraktur) type at the centre top, followed by the written-out amount 'Hunderttausend Mark' in slightly smaller blackletter script; a vertical panel on the right repeats '100 000 Mark' sideways. The bearer text, place, date of issue (Oelsnitz i. V., 15. August 1923), and the issuing authority are printed in a lighter roman and Fraktur mix in the lower centre, with the serial number appearing vertically along the left margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 100 000 Mark Hunderttausend Mark zahlt die Bezirkswirtschaftskasse jedem Vorzeiger dieses Scheines. Oelsnitz i. V., 15. August 1923. Der Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Oelsnitz i. V. |
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Oelsnitz im Vogtland was a textile district, and like hundreds of German municipal and county bodies in 1923, the Amtshauptmannschaft — the administrative district authority — was forced to issue its own emergency currency when the Reichsbank could no longer supply denominations fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation. This note, at 100,000 Mark, would have felt substantial in early 1923 and nearly worthless by autumn of the same year, when the inflation peaked at figures requiring notes denominated in the trillions.
Bezirksverband issues from small Saxon administrative districts are modestly collected but rarely studied in depth. Oelsnitz examples tend to surface in regional auction lots rather than major international sales.