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100 000 Mark Ratingen
| Issuer | Stadt Ratingen (City of Ratingen) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 Marks (100 000) |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-toned note with a fine guilloche underprint incorporating the city arms watermark at centre. The denomination "Hunderttausend Mark" is set in bold Gothic blackletter, with "Mark" below in a decorative Fraktur script framed by ornamental scrollwork. Series designation "REIHE II" and serial number appear at lower left and right respectively. |
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| Reverse lettering | STADT · RATINGEN DIE KASSEN DER STADT RATINGEN ZAHLEN DEM EINLÖSER 100000 MARK ALT-RATINGEN. 100000 MARK RATINGEN, DEN 15. AUGUST 1923. + DER BÜRGERMEISTER: Scheiff STADT · RATINGEN |
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Ratingen's 100,000 Mark note dates to the summer of 1923, when hyperinflation was accelerating so rapidly that municipal authorities across Germany were forced to print emergency currency — Notgeld — simply to meet payroll and keep local commerce moving. By this point in the inflation spiral, the Reichsbank's own output could not keep pace with demand, and hundreds of German cities issued emergency denominations that would have been unthinkable twelve months earlier.
The single authorizing signature belongs to Scheiff, serving as Bürgermeister of Ratingen at the time. Small-city Notgeld of this denomination tends to survive in lower quantities than the heavily collected "Serienscheine" of earlier years — it was spending money, not a collector issue.