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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtrat Dillingen an der Donau (City Council of Dillingen an der Donau, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 Marks (100 000) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper ground with a light pink underprint vignette at upper right, portraying a bust portrait of Wilhelm Bauer, inventor of the submarine, accompanied by decorative chain and laurel motifs. The denomination 'Mk. 100,000' and legend 'HUNDERTTAUSEND MARK' are printed in bold black letterpress at centre, above the issue date 'Dillingen, am 16. August 1923'. The city arms of Dillingen, printed in red, appear at centre below the date line, flanked by manuscript signatures for the Stadtrat and Stadtkämmerer, with a serial number in red at upper left and the printer's imprint 'Veduka-Drucke Dillingen-Donau' at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in dark rose-red on a cream ground, the reverse is dominated by a large central vignette illustrating an allegorical naval scene referencing Wilhelm Bauer's inventions: a surface vessel with mine-sweeping gear, a submarine, and a spherical observation balloon tethered by cables are rendered in a detailed illustrative style. The central image is enclosed within a dotted rectangular border, with 'MARK' printed vertically in bold serif capitals on both the left and right margins, each flanked above and below by the denomination figure '100.000'. |
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Dillingen's 100,000 Mark note was issued during the hyperinflationary spiral of 1923, when municipal authorities across Germany were forced to print their own emergency currency — Notgeld — simply to meet payroll and keep local commerce moving. The Reichsbank could not supply denominations fast enough to keep pace with the collapsing mark. Veduka-Drucke, a local press operating in Dillingen itself, handled production, which was entirely typical of the Notgeld system: printing was fast, local, and cheap.
By the time notes at this denomination were circulating, 100,000 marks bought roughly what a few pfennigs had purchased two years earlier.