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100 000 Mark overprint on 1 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtrat Pirmasens (City Council of Pirmasens) |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | DER SCHUH HAT HIER UNS GROSS GEMACHT Gutschein Reihe A MARK 1000 MARK WER BANKNOTEN NACHMACHT ODER VERFÄLSCHT ODER NACHGEMACHTE ODER VERFÄLSCHTE SICH VERSCHAFFT UND IN VERKEHR BRINGT WIRD MIT ZUCHTHAUS NICHT UNTER ZWEI JAHREN BESTRAFT STADTGEMEINDE PIRMASENS Pirmasens, 12. Juli 1923 Stadtrat Pirmasens. DARUM SCHUH UND SCHUSTER NICHT VERACHT Einlösung bis 1. September 1923 bei der Stadtkasse Pirmasens. 100 000 Mark |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black, red, and green, with four corner vignettes each depicting craftsmen engaged in shoemaking trades — consistent with Pirmasens's identity as a major shoe-manufacturing city. The central design comprises a large green sunburst or rosette guilloche underprint over which the red letterpress text 'Gutschein über 100 000 Mark' is printed in bold, with 'MARK' repeated below in black. A continuous inscription runs around the inner diamond border describing the note's legal tender status and redemption conditions. The bottom margin carries the redemption notice in red. |
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Pirmasens was a shoe-manufacturing town in the Rhineland-Palatinate, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1923, its city council was forced to issue emergency currency — Notgeld — simply to meet payroll as the Reichsmark collapsed under hyperinflation. This particular note is a 1,000 Mark base that was overprinted to 100,000 Mark, a multiplication factor that illustrates how rapidly denominations became obsolete: by mid-1923, notes were being revalued before the ink was dry.
The overprint practice was cheaper than commissioning entirely new plates. Pirmasens issues from this period are moderately common but attract collector interest as a cohesive municipal series tied to a specific industrial economy under monetary collapse.