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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Rottweil (City of Rottweil) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 Marks (100 000) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on grey-violet paper in black letterpress, the obverse carries the municipal arms of Rottweil — a double-headed eagle on a shield — in the upper left, alongside a central vignette of a historic local chapel or tower rendered in fine line illustration. The denomination "Einhunderttausend Mark" is set in an ornate Fraktur script below the vignette, followed by the payment obligation text and the boxed validity clause "Gültig bis 31. Dez. 23", with the issue date "Rottweil, den 17. Aug. 1923" to the right. The lower portion carries the titles and manuscript signatures of the Stadtschultheiß and Stadtpfleger on behalf of the Stadtgemeinde. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT- GUTSCHEIN Einhunderttausend Mark zahlt die Stadtpflege Rottweil dem Einlieferer dieses Scheins Gültig bis 31. Dez. 23. Rottweil, den 17. Aug. 1923. Für die Stadtgemeinde: Stadtschultheiß: Stadtpfleger: |
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Rottweil's 100,000 Mark note belongs to the Inflationszeit notgeld wave of mid-1923, when municipal authorities across Germany were legally authorized — and practically compelled — to issue their own emergency currency as the Reichsbank struggled to print fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation. By the time denominations like this were circulating, the purchasing power they represented was already dissolving within days of issue.
Rottweil, one of the oldest towns in Baden-Württemberg, printed locally — a detail worth noting because many comparable municipal issues from smaller towns were farmed out to commercial printers in Stuttgart or Leipzig.