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100 000 Mark Konsumverein
| Issuer | Allgemeiner Konsumverein für Kiel und Umgegend, e.G.m.b.H. |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | Chr. Haase & Co., Kiel |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note with a single-rule black border enclosing a light green scrollwork and Art Nouveau tendril underprint. The denomination is set in two lines in bold Fraktur letterpress type: "Mark 100000" and the spelled-out "Einhunderttausend Mark", below the issuer title "Gutschein des Allgem. Konsumvereins für Kiel u. Umgegend". A green circular stamp of the issuing cooperative is applied over the text field, and two manuscript signatures in violet ink appear at the lower centre, above the printer imprint of Chr. Haase & Co., Kiel with the typeset serial number. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and bears only a large informal pencil inscription in cursive script covering the full face of the note, consistent with a personal notation made by a subsequent holder; no printed design, vignette, or typeset text is present. |
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The Allgemeiner Konsumverein für Kiel und Umgegend was a cooperative consumer society — not a bank, not a municipality — yet like hundreds of German commercial and civic organizations in 1923, it was forced into the currency business by the complete collapse of Reichsbank note supply relative to demand. These cooperative-issued Notgeld pieces circulated among members and local merchants as functional wage tokens during the hyperinflationary peak, when a worker's weekly pay might be issued Monday morning only to be worthless by Friday afternoon.
Chr. Haase & Co. were a Kiel printing firm, which kept production genuinely local.