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100 000 Mark Harmonika-Fabriken Ch. Weiss
| Issuer | Ch. Weiss A.-G. Harmonika-Fabriken, Trossingen |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | No. 166 GUTSCHEIN über 100 000 MARK HUNDERTTAUSEND MARK GÜLTIG bis 30. SEPTEMBER 1923. TROSSINGEN, den 10. AUGUST 1923 CH. WEISS A.-G. |
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| Reverse lettering | Ch. Weiss A.-G. Harmonika-Fabriken Trossingen - Württbg. |
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Trossingen, a small town in Baden-Württemberg, was already the center of the German harmonica industry by the early 1920s, with firms like Hohner dominating production. Ch. Weiss A.-G. was a smaller competitor in the same trade — and like hundreds of German manufacturers during the hyperinflationary crisis of 1923, the company issued its own notgeld to meet payroll when the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough physical currency to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power.
Emergency issues from private industrial firms at this denomination are common to the period, but the specific issuer here ties this note directly to a single factory town and a single industry.