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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Konstanz (City Treasury of Konstanz) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress notgeld on plain paper with a decorative border. At left, the municipal coat of arms of Konstanz (a white cross on black shield) above the validity clause; at right, the denomination in Gothic script reads 'Einhunderttausend Mark', with serial number, date '15. August 1923', and the municipal council signature line. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtkasse Konstanz Gutschein über Einhunderttausend Mark Gültig bis vier Wochen nach Aufruf zur Einlösung M 100 000 Konstanz, 15. August 1923 Der Stadtrat, |
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Konstanz occupies an odd position in German inflation history. The city sits on the Swiss border, and during the hyperinflationary peak of 1923, the proximity to a hard-currency economy made local notgeld both practically necessary and commercially interesting — Swiss visitors and traders crossing daily created unusual pressure on the municipal treasury to maintain usable small denominations as the Reichsmark disintegrated weekly.
The DeNG reference places this firmly in the documented Württemberg-Baden regional notgeld corpus. Stadtkasse issues at this denomination — 100,000 Mark — were already obsolete in purchasing power within weeks of printing.