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100 000 Mark Braunkohlenwerke Borna

Issuer Deutsche Erdöl-Aktiengesellschaft, Oberbergdirektion Borna
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Obverse description Printed in violet on cream paper, the upper half carries a central vignette of a miner seated atop a loaded coal wagon, set against an industrial panorama of pit-head towers, factory chimneys, and radiating light shafts rendered in a bold woodcut style. A broad horizontal band in Gothic blackletter below bears the denomination 'Einhunderttausend Mark', flanked by ornamental rules, with a starburst cartouche inscribed 'Gutschein' beneath it. The lower panel, laid over a fine lozenge guilloche underprint, contains the redemption text, the issuer's name at right, a red typeset serial number at lower left, and two manuscript signatures.
Obverse lettering Einhunderttausend Mark
Gutschein
zahlen wir in Reichspapiermark dem Überbringer dieses Gutscheines, der vier Wochen nach Aufruf seine Gültigkeit verliert.
Deutsche Erdöl-Aktiengesellschaft
Oberbergdirektion Borna
J. J. WEBER, LEIPZIG
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Deutsche Erdöl-Aktiengesellschaft was a petroleum and mining company whose Borna operations centered on lignite extraction in the Saxony coalfields. This note is a piece of Notgeld — emergency scrip issued by a private industrial employer rather than a bank or municipality. During the hyperinflation peak of 1923, many large industrial concerns in Germany printed their own high-denomination scrip to meet weekly payroll obligations when Reichsbank notes simply could not be supplied fast enough to keep pace with wage demands.

J. J. Weber in Leipzig was primarily known as an illustrated periodical and book printer; their involvement here reflects how indiscriminately the scrip printing trade expanded across any capable press in 1923.

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