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100 000 Mark Kreis Bordesholm
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Bordesholm |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | Buchdruckerei H. H. Nolke G.m.b.H., Bordesholm |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue and dark red on a lightly toned paper ground with a faint text underprint, the reverse centres on a rectangular frame enclosing the large Gothic (Fraktur) denomination '100 000 Mark' and issuer name 'Kreis Bordesholm' in dark red. Above the frame a symmetrical vignette of two winged putti amid baroque acanthus scrollwork forms the upper ornament, while a corresponding foliate cartouche with a central rosette fills the lower margin. Flanking cherub figures in blue occupy the left and right edges, and the printer's imprint appears in a small boxed legend at the lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | 100 000 Mark Kreis Bordesholm Buchdruckerei H. H. Nolke G.m.b.H. Bordesholm i.H. |
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Bordesholm is a small town in Schleswig-Holstein, and the Kreisausschuss — the district committee — issuing emergency currency here in 1923 was doing exactly what hundreds of German municipal and regional bodies were forced to do as hyperinflation made Reichsbank notes functionally useless faster than they could be printed. The 100,000 Mark denomination, unthinkable just eighteen months earlier, was by mid-1923 barely enough for a loaf of bread.
Printed locally by Nolke's print shop rather than a specialist security printer, this note belongs to the vast Notgeld infrastructure that kept regional commerce moving when the central monetary system collapsed entirely.