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100 000 Mark Cronenberg
| Issuer | Stadt Cronenberg (City of Cronenberg) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in purple on cream paper, the left vignette shows a detailed letterpress view of Cronenberg's Rathaus (town hall) framed by tool imagery forming the border. The city arms with lion appear upper centre, below which large Fraktur blackletter text states the denomination. A Bürgermeisteramt circular stamp and mayoral signature appear lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Cronenberg 100.000 Hunderttausend Mark Cronenberg, 1. August 1923. Der Bürgermeister : Die Werkzeugstadt auf grünen Höhen Werkzeuge der heimischen Industrie. Gutes Werkzeug = halbe Arbeit. (Translation: City of Cronenberg 100,000 Hundred Thousand Marks Cronenberg, August 1, 1923. The Mayor: The tool city on green heights Tools of the local industry. Good tools = half the work.) |
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Cronenberg was a small industrial town in the Bergisches Land, known for tool and file manufacturing, and by mid-1923 the Reichsbank's inability to supply adequate currency had pushed hundreds of German municipalities into printing their own emergency money. This Notgeld issue from the Stadt Cronenberg was printed by Kunstanstalt Hermann Rabitz in nearby Solingen — a practical choice given Solingen's dense concentration of commercial printers serving the entire region.
At 100,000 Mark the denomination reflects the accelerating hyperinflation of early-to-mid 1923, before the truly astronomical figures of the autumn made such amounts effectively worthless within days of issue.