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| Issuer | Fabrik Stolzenberg G.m.b.H., Oos-Baden |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 Marks (100 000) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher printed in red-orange on white paper, with a letterpress vignette of an aerial townscape view of Oos-Baden occupying the left third of the note. The right portion carries the denomination heading and redemption text within a ruled border, with the issuer's name in bold script at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein für 100 000 Mk. Die Fabrik Stolzenberg, G. m. b. H., Oos-Baden bezahlt gegen Rückgabe dieses Gutscheines Einhunderttausend Mark Die Einlösung muß bis zum 20. September 1923 erfolgt sein und zwar durch das Bankhaus Carl T. Herrmann & Co. in Baden-Baden und Süddeutsche Disconto-Gesellschaft, A.-G., Filiale Baden-Baden. Später vorgelegte Scheine werden nicht eingelöst. Oos-Baden, den 20. August 1923. Deutsche Büro-Einrichtungs-Ges.m.b.H. Fabrik Stolzenberg Lit. A. Nr. 2485 |
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Stolzenberg was a chemical factory in Oos, a district of Baden-Baden, and like hundreds of German industrial firms in 1923 it resorted to printing its own emergency currency — Notgeld — when the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough physical notes to keep pace with hyperinflation. These factory-issued notes functioned as wage scrip, circulating internally among workers and locally accepted tradespeople rather than through any banking system. The 100,000 Mark denomination, extraordinary by any prewar standard, was already being outpaced by inflation before the ink dried.