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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Bitterfeld (District Committee of Bitterfeld, Prussian Province of Saxony) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 Marks (100 000) |
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| Obverse description | Pink-toned Notgeld note printed in dark brown Fraktur script on a fine guilloche underprint, with the denomination numeral '100 000' set large across the upper portion flanked by repeated value numerals at the corners. The central text block in Gothic blackletter carries the payment obligation clause of the Kreis-Kommunalkasse Bitterfeld, validity conditions, and the issue date 'Bitterfeld, den 11. August 1923,' below which the issuing authority 'DER KREISAUSSCHUSS DES KREISES BITTERFELD' is printed in bold capitals. A faint embossed watermark-style vignette appears at lower left, and multiple manuscript signatures of committee members are applied below the authority line. |
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| Protection type | Embossed dry seal |
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Bitterfeld's 100,000 Mark note was issued during the acute phase of Germany's 1923 hyperinflation, when municipal and district authorities across Prussia were legally empowered to print their own emergency currency — Notgeld — to fill the vacuum left by an utterly collapsed Reichsmark. By mid-1923, the Reichsbank simply could not produce denominations fast enough to keep pace with prices doubling weekly.
C.G. Naumann in Leipzig was a commercial printer that handled a significant volume of Saxon and central German Notgeld contracts during this period. The embossed dry seal was the district's primary authentication device — an inexpensive but difficult-to-replicate security measure appropriate for a note with an expected useful life measured in weeks, not years.