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100 000 Mark Bayerische Braunkohlen-Industrie
| Issuer | Bayerische Braunkohlen-Industrie-Aktien-Gesellschaft |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 Mark (100 000) |
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| Obverse description | This Notgeld voucher, dated 8 August 1923, is printed in brown and ochre tones on aged cream paper within an elaborate multi-border frame of interlocking guilloche ornaments with foliate cornerpieces and the denomination numeral "100000" repeated at each corner. At the upper centre, a crowned heraldic shield bearing crossed mining hammers serves as the issuer's vignette, flanked by dense decorative scrollwork. The central text panel carries the denomination "Hunderttausend Mark" in large Gothic blackletter script, with the issuing authority, location, date, and a facsimile manuscript signature appearing below. |
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| Obverse lettering | Bayerische Braunkohlen-Industrie-Aktien-Gesellschaft Schwandorf (Oberpfalz) zahlt gegen diesen Gutschein dem Vorzeiger Hunderttausend Mark Schwandorf (Oberpfalz), den 8. Aug. 1923 Bayerische Braunkohlen-Industrie-Aktien-Gesellschaft No 180269 |
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Bayerische Braunkohlen-Industrie-Aktien-Gesellschaft was a lignite mining company operating in Bavaria's brown coal fields. Like thousands of German industrial firms during the hyperinflation of 1923, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — because the Reichsbank simply could not print Reichsmarks fast enough to meet payroll demand. These notes were effectively wage instruments, printed in enormous quantities over just a few months before the Rentenmark stabilization of November 1923 rendered the entire series worthless almost immediately after issue.
The sheer velocity of inflation that summer meant denominations became obsolete within weeks of printing.