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100 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Neumünster (City of Neumünster) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | H. Simonsen, Buch- und Kunstdruckerei, Neumünster |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld printed in violet on plain paper, framed by a fine ornamental border with guilloche-style corner and edge motifs. The central text in Gothic Fraktur script reads 'Gutschein der Stadt Neumünster über Einhunderttausend Mark', flanked on both sides by the numeral '100000' in large underprint figures. Two blocks of small-print text flank the denomination, noting redemption conditions by the Stadtkasse, with the issue date 'Neumünster, den 9. August 1923' centred below; a circular town seal is impressed at centre, and two manuscript signatures appear above the serial number panel at the foot, attributed to Der Magistrat and Das Stadtverordnetenkollegium. The printer's imprint of H. Simonsen, Neumünster, appears below the lower border. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse printed in violet, enclosed within a simple decorative border of stylised floral and scrollwork motifs. The issuer's name 'Stadt Neumünster' is set in Gothic script at the upper centre, beneath which a small ornamental flourish separates it from the large denomination numeral '100 000 Mk.' printed in bold letters at centre field. The overall design is intentionally uncluttered, consistent with the emergency currency printing practice of the German hyperinflationary period. |
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Neumünster's 100,000 Mark note is a product of the hyperinflationary spiral of mid-1923, when municipal and regional authorities across Germany were legally permitted — and practically compelled — to issue their own emergency currency, known as Notgeld, to compensate for the Reich's catastrophic failure to supply adequate legal tender. By the time denominations like this were being printed, the value they represented was depreciating faster than the ink could dry.
H. Simonsen was a local Neumünster printing house, not a specialist security printer. That matters: the note carries none of the intaglio depth or anti-counterfeiting sophistication of Reichsbank issues.