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100 000 Mark Bergbau-Aktien-Gesellschaft Lothringen
| Issuer | Bergbau-Aktien-Gesellschaft Lothringen |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in black letterpress on plain paper with no pictorial vignette. The issuer name 'Bergbau-Akt.-Ges. Lothringen' appears in a header panel at the top, flanked by crossed-hammer mining symbols, followed by 'Gutschein' in large Fraktur type and the denomination 'Einhunderttausend Mark' in bold display script. Two paragraphs of text below advise the bearer to treat the note with care as it carries monetary value and that the holder bears responsibility for any loss, with a further notice that the note loses validity after the redemption period stated on the obverse. |
| Reverse lettering | :: Bergbau-Akt.-Ges. Lothringen :: Gutschein über Einhunderttausend Mark Dieser Gutschein ist geldwertig und deshalb sorgfältig wie bares Geld zu behandeln. Für allen Schaden, der aus dem Verluste dieses Scheines entsteht, ist sein Inhaber selbst verantwortlich. Nach Ablauf der umstehend erwähnten Einlösungsfrist verliert dieser Schein seine Gültigkeit und wird nicht mehr eingelöst. Bergbau-Akt.-Ges. Lothringen. |
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Bergbau-AG Lothringen was one of the Ruhr coal operations that issued its own emergency currency during the hyperinflation peak of 1923 — a direct consequence of the French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr in January of that year, which disrupted normal banking channels and created acute demand for small-denomination substitutes at the colliery level. This note originates from the Lothringen colliery at Gerthe, near Bochum, where the shaft had been sunk in the 1870s and which remained a significant producing pit through the Weimar period.
Notgeld issued by individual mining companies is among the more historically grounded emergency currency of the inflation era — wages had to be paid, and the Reichsbank simply could not keep pace with denomination requirements.